The nature of malformations of the rectum and urogenital passages.

  • Frederic Wood Jones
Date:
1904
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Credit: The nature of malformations of the rectum and urogenital passages. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    described; imperforate rectum is the consequence of the failure of the development of the post-allantoic gut. It is by no means uncommon to find these abnormalities combined—atresia vaginae, imperforate rectum, and ectopia vaginae—in different combinations; and it is claimed as an argument in favour of the account given of the pathology of ectopia vesicae that it should occur in cases where, far from the visceral orifices being too widely open, they are abnormally closed. [Towards the expenses of this investigation a grant has been received from the British Medical Association.] Reference. 1 Ballautyne, Antenatal Pathology
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