UROGENITAL SINUS ABNORMALITIES IN THE FEMALE PATIENT

MARSHALL, FRAY F.
JEFFS, ROBERT D.
SARAFYAN, WENDY K.

From the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

Accepted for publication December 15, 1978.

Read at annual meeting of American Urological Association, New York, New York, May 13–17, 1979.

Journal of Urology 122(4):p 568-572, October 1979. | DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(17)56510-6

Three patients with a urogenital sinus and 1 with a cloaca presented with complex diagnostic and therapeutic anomalies. A classification of these and other vaginal anomalies is based on the theory that they all represent an arrest in normal embryological development. Six categories are described, including vaginal agenesis, urogenital sinus, vaginal atresia, vaginal septa, vaginal stenosis and cloaca.