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Assessing Urinary Tract Junction Obstruction Defects by Methylene Blue Dye Injection
Published on: October 12, 2017
Incidental vesicourachal diverticulum in a young female
Christopher Tan1, Michael A Simon1, Natalia Dolin1
1Department of Radiology, RWJBH-Saint Barnabas Medical Center, 94 Old Short Hills Road, Livingston, NJ 07039 USA.
Abstract:
A vesicourachal remnant is the rarest presentation of the congenital urachal remnant anomalies, occurring approximately in 3% of those who have them. We discuss a case where a vesicourachal anomaly is discovered incidentally in a pediatric patient by ultrasound and subsequently confirmed by MRI. The urachus connects the dome of the bladder to the umbilical cord in fetal life. After birth, this structure is obliterated and becomes the median umbilical ligament. When complete obliteration does not occur, a urachal remnant is created.
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