Congenital Disorders of the Urinary Bladder

Question 1

Exstrophy of the urinary bladder is shown. Describe the pathology.

Answer 1

Congenital defect in which there is an absence of the anterior bladder wall and part of the anterior abdominal wall

Question 2

What are urinary bladder diverticula?

Answer 2

Sac-like outpouchings of bladder wall related to incomplete formation of muscular layers

Question 3

What causes congenital incompetence of the vesicoureteral valve?

Answer 3

Abnormal junction betwixt the ureters and urinary bladder