Glandular diphallus with urethral duplication: Conventional technique for a rare congenital anomaly

Thanatophoric Dysplasia; a Rare Case Report on a Congenital Anomaly

The rare form of skeletal dysplasia is thanatophoric dysplasia. The meaning for thanatophoric dysplasia is death bearing which is derived from Greek word. It occurs 1in 20,000 to 50,000. It is mainly due to mutations in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3gene. Features of thanatophoric dysplasia are frontal bossing, prominent eyes, narrow thorax, protruded abdomen and bowed legs. The knowle...

Congenital Prepubic Sinus (Type 2 Stephens Variant of Epispadiac Dorsal Urethral Duplication): An Uncommon Anomaly

Variants of congenital prepubic sinus have been reported rarely, and because the anatomic features often differ from each other, a consensus concerning the embryology and classification was not achieved yet. Various names including congenital prepubic sinus, sub pubic fistula, prepubic dermoid sinus, and suprapubic dermoid sinus, were used to identify these lesions, and, among the classificatio...

A Rare Congenital Anomaly of Wing in a Pigeon Chick (Columba livia)

Case Description- A 20-day-old pigeon chick with left wing distal to the carpal joint into left flank presented to our avian medicine and surgery clinic. Clinical Findings-The bird had a mal-shaped wing structure, whereas the axial skeleton, thoracic and pelvic limbs skeleton were normal radiographically and clinically, excluding the left wing. The only clinical sign observed was recumbency. Tr...

Congenital prepubic sinus – A variant of urethral duplication

Urethral duplication: a rare cause of recurrent urinary infection.

Urethral duplication is quite a rare congenital anomaly with ill-defined aetiology. Patients often present with penile deformity; recurrent urinary infections, urinary incontinence, serosal discharge from the accessory urethra, and difficulty in urinating. Urethral duplication is most commonly grouped according to the Efmann classification. It has 3 main types as Type I, II, and III. There is n...