Pitfalls in the diagnosis and management of obstructive uterovaginal duplication: A series of 32 cases

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Capito, Carmen ^a   Echaieb, Anis ^a   Lortat Jacob, Stephen ^a   Thibaud, Elisabeth ^a   Sarnacki, Sabine ^a   Nihoul Fékété, Claire ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

Blind hemivagina; Hematocolpos; Hematometra; Renalagenesis; Uterovaginalduplication

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; KIDNEY AGENESIS; MUELLERIAN DUCT; MULTICYSTIC DYSPLASTIC KIDNEY; OBSTRUCTIVE UTEROVAGINAL DUPLICATION; OVARY DISEASE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; STENOSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; UTERUS MALFORMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TIME; UTERUS; UTERUS DISEASE; VAGINA; VAGINA DISEASE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINAL DISEASES;

EID: 54049106506     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0219     Document Type: Article

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