Female epispadias: report of a case and review of the literature.
Female epispadias is a congenital anomaly representing a mild form of the spectrum of exstrophy of the bladder. Unrecognized an untreated, the handicap associated with the physical malformation can create overwhelming clinical and psychological problems for the affected female. Radiographic findings of spinal dysrhaphism with diastasis of the public bones are often associated with, and can afford the first clue to, the physical findings of absent clitoris, ununited labia and patulous and foreshortned urethra.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D004842:Epispadias / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016136:Spina Bifida Occulta / Q000150:complications; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000209:etiology; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000209:etiology; D014567:Urography; D014718:Vesico-Ureteral Reflux / Q000209:etiology