title: A rare presentation of abortive epispadiac urethral duplication and vanishing midurethra.
abstract: We report a 4-year-old boy with a hitherto undescribed case of abortive epispadiac duplication of the urethra presenting as a blind-ending penopubic sinus proximally and a mucosa-lined groove overlying the glanular corona distally but with absent midurethra. The patient was treated for cosmetic reasons with good results. A plausible embryological genesis of this defect is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Pt BD Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India. drjohnsimmi@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Simmi K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Ratan
authors.forename: K N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Rattan
authors.forename: Tapeshwar
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sehgal
authors.forename: Punita K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Sodhi
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D004842:Epispadias / Q000196:embryology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010413:Penis / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014521:Urethra / Q000002:abnormalities*