Posterior cloaca-further experience and guidelines for the treatment of an unusual anorectal malformation

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1234-1240

  Peña, Alberto ^a   Bischoff, Andrea ^a   Breech, Lesley ^a   Louden, Emily ^a   Levitt, Marc A ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorectal malformation; Cloaca; Cloacal variant; Posterior cloaca; Urogenital sinus with imperforate anus

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ANUS CONTINENCE; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; BLADDER DIVERTICULUM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOACA; CYST; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUODENUM ATRESIA; ECTOPIC KIDNEY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL MALFORMATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYDROCOLPOS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTERMITTENT CATHETERIZATION; INTESTINE MALROTATION; KIDNEY DUPLICATION; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; MALROTATION SYNDROME; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTICYSTIC DYSPLASTIC KIDNEY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; POSTERIOR CLOACA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACRUM AGENESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; URETEROCELE; URETHRA DISEASE; URETHRA STENOSIS; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROGENITAL MOBILIZATION; UROGENITAL SINUS; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; UTERUS; UTERUS BICORNIS; VAGINA; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; ANAL CANAL; COLOSTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URETHRAL DISEASES; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VAGINAL DISEASES;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANAL CANAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOACA; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URETHRAL DISEASES; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; UROGENITAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VAGINA; VAGINAL DISEASES;

EID: 77953830124     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2010.02.095     Document Type: Article

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