Complex genital malformation: ectopic ureter ending in a supposed mesonephric duct in a woman with renal agenesis and ipsilateral blind hemivagina

Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2004 Nov 10;117(1):105-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2004.01.042.

Abstract

We present a clinical case of a patient with left renal agenesis and ipsilateral blind hemivagina who also had one or more atretic ectopic ureters opening into supposed mesonephric duct, which in turn opened into, or joined onto, the ipsilateral hemicervix, continuing with the blind hemivagina. The diagram of this complex genitourinary malformation would strongly support our hypothesis of the embryology of the human vagina as deriving from the Wolffian ducts and the Mullerian tubercle.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / diagnostic imaging*
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / pathology
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / surgery
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Genitalia, Female / abnormalities*
  • Genitalia, Female / diagnostic imaging
  • Genitalia, Female / surgery
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Urinary Tract / abnormalities*
  • Urinary Tract / pathology
  • Urinary Tract / surgery
  • Urogenital Abnormalities / diagnostic imaging*
  • Urogenital Abnormalities / pathology
  • Urogenital Abnormalities / surgery
  • Urogenital Surgical Procedures / methods
  • Urography