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A 4-day-old male newborn, weighing 2.5 Kg, delivered vaginally at 38 weeks presented with malformed external genitalia and a reddish swelling over the lower part of the abdomen and the absent anal opening with a small perineal opening
Exposed, everted bladder template was clearly visible immediately below umbilical stump; a completely dorsally opened urethral plate run from bladder neck down to the open glans; left and right corpora cavernosa were clearly visible beneath and alongside urethral plate; the scrotum was normally developed, but caudally displaced; anus was absent at the normal site
Exstrophy bladder in male patients usually comprised of high anorectal malformation
Summary
A 4-day-old male newborn, weighing 2.5 Kg, delivered vaginally at 38 weeks presented with malformed external genitalia and a reddish swelling over the lower part of the abdomen and the absent anal opening with a small perineal opening. Maternal serologies for HbsAg, HCV, HIV, Toxoplasma, and Rubella were planned but due to financial reason not done. Physical examination revealed a lobulated red mass with lower abdominal wall defect.
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