Genital Abnormalities Flashcards
What is a bicornuate uterus?
Partially divided
What is a unicornuate uterus?
One side fails to develop
How may uterine abnormalities present?
How are they diagnosed?
What classification is used?
Recurrent miscarriages
Difficult labour
Hysterosalpingogram
ASRM classification - look up
How might an absent uterus and endometrium present? - think about their function
Primary amenorrhoea
How is an absent or short vagina fixed?
Plastic surgery - look up
Imperforate hymen:
What does this mean?
Presentation:
- Obvious first sign
- They also get haematocolpos. What is it?
Hymen never opened during development
Primary amenorrhoea
You get lower abdo pain
Bulging under the pressure of damned up menstrual blood
What genetic disease can cause thin, rudimentary ovaries?
What developmental abnormality could leave someone with no ovaries?
Turner’s syndrome - look up
Testicular feminization syndrome: Now more appropriately called the complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, this is a genetic disorder that makes XY fetuses insensitive (unresponsive) to androgens (male hormones). Instead, they are born looking externally like normal girls.
What is a didelphus uterus?
Uterus didelphys (sometimes also uterus didelphis) represents a uterine malformation where the uterus is present as a paired organ when the embryogenetic fusion of the Müllerian ducts fails to occur.
As a result, there is a double uterus with two separate cervices, and possibly a double vagina as well.
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