Covered exstrophy of the bladder, approaches to treatment
Introduction. Classic bladder exstrophy is a rare anomaly, occurring in a ratio of 1:30000 to 1:50000 newborns. However, various variants of the exstrophy-epispadias complex are 10 times less common. Covered bladder exstrophy is a rare variant of classic exstrophy. Patients with the covered variant of exstrophy can be considered as classic exstrophy with all the accompanying defects of this anomaly, but with a bladder that is closed and covered only by a thin, often translucent skin membrane without muscles or a fascial layer.
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