Vaginal malformations: A proposed classification based on embryological, anatomical and clinical criteria and their surgical management (an analysis of 167 cases)

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 797-803

  Ruggeri, Giovanni ^a   Gargano, Tommaso ^a   Antonellini, Claudio ^a   Carlini, Veronica ^a   Randi, Beatrice ^a   Destro, Francesca ^a   Lima, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

New classification; Surgical treatment; Vaginal malformations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR SAGITTAL TRANSANORECTAL VAGINAL PULL THROUGH; ARTICLE; ATRESIC CERVICAL RESECTION; CHILD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISORDER OF MUELLERIAN DUCT FUSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYMEN; HYMEN IMPERFORATION; HYMEN INCISION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUELLERIAN DUCT; PERINEAL FLAP VAGINOPLASTY; PERINEAL VAGINAL PULL THROUGH; POSTERIOR SAGITTAL ANORECTAL VAGINAL URETHROPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBULARIZATION; URETHROVAGINAL FISTULA; UROGENITAL SINUS; UTERUS NEW VAGINA ANASTOMOSIS; VAGINA APLASIA; VAGINA ATRESIA; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA DUPLICATION; VAGINA MALFORMATION; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MULLERIAN DUCTS; SOMITES; SPINE; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 84866012749     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: 14379813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-012-3121-7     Document Type: Article

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