Annals Academy of Medicine Dear Editor, Incisional hernias are common complications following abdominal surgery with an incidence of 2% to 20% after midline laparotomy.1 Umbilical fl uid discharge is, however, an unusual presenting complaint and may arise from structural abnormalities persisting from birth such as a patent urachus or secondary to instrumentation. Here we report a case of a peri...

We report a 16-year-old-male patient with Prune-Bellysyndrome (PBS) and patent urachus, bilateral renal dysplasia and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The first kidney transplantation was performed at the age of 3 years, leaving an urachal catheter. Transplant failure underwent in a new cadaveric transplant at the present. Post-kidney transplant renogram was performed to evaluate the renal funct...

Resumen Desde el punto de vista embriológico uraco es una estructura tubular que proviene la involución del alantoides y comunica cara anterosuperior vejiga con ombligo. Durante desarrollo normal, éste debe obliterarse progresivamente hasta conformar ligamento umbilical medio. La falta obliteración puede resultar en varios tipos malformaciones como son persistencia permeable (mal...

Gross Pathology: Suppurative osteomyelitis and periostitis with osteolysis and necrosis of bone and cartilage of the left rear cannon bone, with extension into the fetlock joint (suppurative arthritis), were observed. A patent urachus with chronic fibrinopurulent and necrotizing omphalitis with fibrosis was also present. The right rear cannon bone had a well-demarcated focus of thickened distal...

Persistent urachal anomalies are rare congenital lesions of the urinary tract. They result from failed obliteration urachus and classified according to persistent segment urachus.

Persistent urachal anomalies are rare congenital lesions of the urinary tract. They result from failed obliteration urachus and classified according to persistent segment urachus.

Persistent urachal anomalies are rare congenital lesions of the urinary tract. They result from failed obliteration urachus and classified according to persistent segment urachus.