Publication at First Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport |
2018
Abstract
Autors found midline epithelial adhesions in the glandar urethral plate in patients with hypospadias. After dissolution, a blind epithelized channel becomes visualized inside of the plate pointing to immature embryonic luminization.
In addition it reveals that the epithelized surface of the distal urethral plate is larger than previously considered. The main contribution of the study is a new perspective of distal urethral plate anatomy that enables enlargement of the epithelized surface of the distal urethral plate by dissolution of the preexisting epithelized groove and opening of epithelized channels within the plate.
To the best of our knowledge, this anatomical anomaly has not been described previously.