Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome: a rare presentation with pyocolpos
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Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome: a rare presentation with pyocolpos.
Obstructed hemivagina and ipsilateral renal anomaly (OHVIRA), also known as Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome, is a rare syndrome with only a few hundred reported cases described since 1922. Only a handful of these cases have been associated with pyocolpos. Mullerian duct anomalies have an incidence of 2-3%. While OHVIRA constitutes 0.16-10% of these Mullerian duct anomalies. Symptoms usually p...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Radiology Case Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1943-0922
DOI: 10.3941/jrcr.v6i3.877