Abstract
A two-day-old newborn male child with a rare variant of exstrophy bladder was managed in our institute. The child has true duplicate bladder exstrophy which is extremely rare and only 8 cases reported in the world literature so far. We describe another one and briefly review the literature.
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Kumar, B., Sharma, C. & Sinha, D.D. True duplicate bladder exstrophy: a rare lesion. Indian J Pediatr 76, 852–853 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-009-0172-4
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