Abstract
The most common congenital malformation anomalies are, according to their incidence, skeletal muscle, cutaneous, and urogenital. The most frequent genitourinary anomalies are renal, testicular, and urethral, respectively. About 10 % of the population has some kind of genital or urinary system anomaly [1].
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Fahmy, M.A.B. (2015). Introduction. In: Rare Congenital Genitourinary Anomalies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43680-6_1
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