title: Treatment of adult female epispadias without exstrophy in the presence of rhabdosphincter function.
abstract: Female epispadias without exstrophy is a very rare entity. Symptoms of female epispadias are primary urinary incontinence and anatomical abnormal features. A 24-year-old married women with two children presented with primary urinary incontinence. Due to previous failure of correct diagnosis and ineffective medical treatment, the patient developed psychological problems (anxiety and depression). In the presence of minimal rhabdosphincter function we could achieve socially acceptable urinary continence by bladder neck plication and a Burch colposuspension. The patient did not consent to a major reconstruction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria. alexandre.pelzer@uibk.ac.at
authors.forename: Alexandre E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Pelzer
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akkad
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schwentner
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schwenter
authors.forename: Hannes
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Strasser
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bartsch
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rehder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001746:Bladder Exstrophy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004842:Epispadias / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014521:Urethra / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D014563:Urodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*