Publication: Mullerain anomaly with a persistent cloaca and an ovarian dermoid- a rare combination
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Date
2006
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Article Type
Case Report
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
ISSN (Print) : 1993-2979 | ISSN (Online) : 1993-2987
Volume Title
Pages
Pages: 76 - 78
Publisher
Institute of Medicine
Abstract
Abstract
Background: This case concerns a 30 year old unmarried woman who was least bothered by persistent cloacal opening in the perineum from which she had been passing stool, completely being ignorant of normal female anatomy of lower gastrointestinal/urogenital tract and only attended our hospital for combined operative management of cholelithiasis and ovarian dermoid detected by an ultrasound when she presented with 2 years history of abdominal pain.
Case report: Laparotomy visualized mullerian anomaly in form of thumb sized uterus without a cervix and unilateral dermoid. Megacolon was also observed as a resultant of cloacal abnormality.
Keywords: persistent cloaca, mullerain anomaly, megacolon
Description
A. Amatya
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, TU Teaching Hospital
G. Gurung
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Surgery, TUTH, Kathmandu
A. Rana
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Surgery, TUTH, Kathmandu
M.P. Khakurel
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Surgery, TUTH, Kathmandu
K.P. Singh
Department of Surgery, TUTH, Kathmandu
Keywords
persistent cloaca, mullerain anomaly, megacolon
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.59779/jiomnepal.251