Abstract
Anencephaly is the most severe neural tube defect in human fetuses. The objective of this chapter is to analyze the structure of the kidney, ureter, bladder, testis, prostate, and penis in anencephalic human fetuses. In this chapter we study the structure of urinary (kidney, bladder, and ureter) and genital (testis, prostate, urethra, and penis) organs in anencephalic fetuses and compared them to normal ones. We studied with dissection and histologic techniques 40 normal human fetuses (20 males and 20 females) and 12 anencephalic human fetuses (5 males and 7 females) without anomalies of the genitourinary tract. In our opinion, the urinary and genital anatomy did not suffer important alterations in consequence of this disease, and, in the future, this tissue could be used as a substitute for native tissue.
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