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Cloaca in 4-Year-Old Female Patient with Total Urinary Incontinence (Hendren Patient Case)

  • 4-year-old female patient with total urinary incontinence
  • Cloaca with features seen in clocal exstrophy
  • Ileocolic junction originally joined bladder
  • Distal colon originally joined bladder
  • Distal colon originally ended blindly
  • Two adjoining bladders
  • After an endoscopy 2 weeks later there was reasonable outlet resistance

4-Year-Old Female Patient with Right Colostomy at Birth (Hendren Patient Case)

  • 4-year-old girl sent from abroad in 1986
  • Right colostomy at birth
  • At age 4 months, posterior sagittal operation was attempted, but abandoned after the UGS was inadvertently transected
  • An S.P. tube was placed
  • 8 months later, colostomy was closed and a stricture of the neourethra was opened endoscopically
  • Patient was sullen, unhappy, and uncommunicative when first seen