title: Unusual case of bladder duplication: complete duplication in coronal plane with single urethra and no associated anomalies.
abstract: Duplication of the bladder is an unusual congenital anomaly. Complete and incomplete forms are well defined in published reports. We present an unusual case of a 3-year-old boy with two separate-walled bladders, one lying in front of the other, communicating through a tiny septum, at the neck of the primary bladder that drained to a normal single urethra. This type of isolated bladder anomaly was not defined in the classification of the duplication of the bladder. In patients with a lower abdominal cystic mass, complete bladder duplication must be included in the differential diagnosis of pelvic cystic masses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. poguzkurt@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Pelin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Oğuzkurt
authors.forename: Semire Serin
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Ozalevli
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alkan
authors.forename: Fazilet
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kayaselcuk
authors.forename: Akgün
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hiçsönmez
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014521:Urethra; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery