Abstract
Urethral duplication is a rare congenital anomaly with various clinical presentations, and multiple techniques have been described for its repair. We report a 1-year-old boy with hypospadiac urethral duplication who presented with double urinary stream. Voiding cystourethrography, retrograde urethrography, and cystourethroscopy showed the normal-caliber ventral urethra was dominant and the distal dorsal (non-dominant) urethra had a good caliber. Urethral reconstruction was performed with an incision of the adjoining walls of the both urethra in a side-to-side urethrourethrostomy fashion.
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Yanai, T., Kawakami, H., Nango, Y. et al. Minimally invasive repair of hypospadiac urethral duplication. Pediatr Surg Int 27, 115–118 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-010-2720-4
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