Adenocarcinoma Urethral diverticulum Vaginal cancer Abstract We report an extremely rare case of a 50-year-old woman with an adenocarcinoma arising within a urethral diverticulum. She could not be diagnosed correctly before operation and the microscopic pathological examination of the surgical specimen was the only indication showing the cancer origin. Yasuhiko Nakamura, MD, Department of Obste...

The heart of Bathynomus doederleini gives rise to an anterior median artery (AMA), one pair of anterior lateral arteries (ALAs) and five pairs of lateral arteries (LAs). Cardioarterial valves are located at the junctions between the heart and arteries, each composed of a pair of muscular flaps. All valves of the AMA and the ALAs receive valve excitatory (constrictor) nerves (VEs). The valves of...

To cite: Bansal A, Kumar M, Goel S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016215206 DESCRIPTION Case 1: A 53-year-old man presented with acute urinary retention for which suprapubic catheterisation was performed after failed multiple attempts of per urethral catheterisation. Retrograde urethrogram (RUG) revealed an anterior urethral stricture and...

Allantoic cysts are a somewhat rare entity. They are identifiable on antenatal ultrasound examination but are not easily distinguishable from pseudocysts, which are often associated with a poor prognosis. Their etiology remains obscure and obstructive uropathies have been proposed to be one of the underlying mechanisms. We report on a case in which both allantoic cysts and a patent urachus were...

BACKGROUND Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is characterized by an asymmetrically hypertrophied left ventricle and is regarded as a disease of cardiac muscle. METHODS AND RESULTS To assess the possibility that the mitral valve itself may be involved in the disease process, we studied mitral valves from 94 patients with HCM and 45 normal control subjects. The area of the mitral leaflets was i...

PURPOSE We report our experience and long-term followup of patients undergoing excision and primary anastomotic reconstruction for anterior urethral strictures. MATERIALS AND METHODS From July 1986 to May 2006 the charts of 260 patients who underwent excision with primary anastomosis at our center for bulbar urethral stricture were reviewed. Patient age ranged from 14 to 78 years (mean 38.4),...