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LB17.2 category

Persistent cloaca

Definition

A congenital anomaly in which the intestinal, urinary, and reproductive ducts open into a common cavity, a result of the failure of the urorectal septum to form during prenatal development. They occur exclusively in girls and comprise the most complex defect in the spectrum of anorectal malformations.

Also indexed as

Cloaca NOSPersistent cloacaanal and urogenital canal fusionanal fusion

Nearby in Structural developmental anomalies of anal canal