A 36-year-old female presented with low back pain and was admitted. During the anamnesis, she reported having undergone surgery, in the first days of life, for the repair of lumbosacral myelomeningocele and imperforate anus. She had been a full-term infant, born to an adolescent mother who had received no prenatal care. There were no reports of infection, drug use, or exposure to teratogenic ag...

Abstract Background Previous studies have revealed that mutations of Spalt Like Transcription Factor 1 ( SALL1 ) are responsible for Townes-Brocks syndrome (TBS), a rare genetic disorder is characterized by an imperforate anus, dysplastic ears, thumb malformations and other abnormalities, such as hearing loss, foot malformations, renal impairment with or without genitourinary congenital heart d...

Ectopic anus is an atypical uncommon variant of broad spectrum of anorectal malformation. We present a case of a 22 day old neonate with anus placed within scrotum. After surgical intervention a neoanus was created within sphincter complex and good functional result was achieved. Patient had urethral injury intraoperatively which was managed by urethrostomy. Subcoronal hypospadias and urethrost...

The omphalocele-exstrophy vesicalis-imperforated anus-spinal defects (OEIS) complex is a rare variant of the bladder exstrophy epispadias and multisystem anomalies involving gastrointestinal, genitourinary, skeletal systems. number patients who have OEIS do not terminate their pregnancy small. We present prenatal postnatal radiological images patient diagnosed with at twentieth gestational week.

OBJECTIVE Anorectal malformations are usually diagnosed at birth, but some patients have presented to this institution beyond the early newborn period without recognition of their anorectal malformations. To quantify the extent of this problem, we undertook a review of all patients presenting to this hospital with anorectal malformations. METHODS We reviewed all new cases of anorectal malform...