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Urogenital sinus anomaly

MedGen UID:
867587
Concept ID:
C4021972
Anatomical Abnormality
HPO: HP:0100779

Definition

A rare birth defect in women where the urethra and vagina both open into a common channel. [from HPO]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVUrogenital sinus anomaly

Conditions with this feature

46,XY sex reversal 11
MedGen UID:
78602
Concept ID:
C0266427
Disease or Syndrome
SRXY11 is characterized by a genital phenotype that may range from predominantly female to predominantly male, including marked sex ambiguity depending on the duration of normal testicular function prior to the loss of testicular tissue. Approximately half of patients present with micropenis and bilateral cryptorchidism, and half present with female-appearing or ambiguous external genitalia (da Silva et al., 2019; McElreavey et al., 2020). The testicular regression syndrome (TRS) was delineated by Sarto and Opitz (1973), who called it the XY gonadal dysgenesis syndrome. It is characterized primarily by the absence of gonads in an XY person. In most cases, uterus and fallopian tubes are absent but small tubular structures interpreted as mullerian or wolffian rudiments (or both) are present. The range of virilizing effects due to early testicular tissue extends from none in phenotypic females with only slightly hypoplastic normal external genitalia, well-formed but hypoplastic uterus, and well-formed tubes (De Marchi et al., 1981) to the anorchic phenotypic male (Edman et al., 1977). Most affected individuals lack a vagina but a urogenital sinus or pseudovaginal urethral outpouching is found. Partial labioscrotal fusion and clitoris enlargement are common, breast development is absent, and postpubertal eunuchoid habitus is the rule. Sometimes nongenital anomalies are present (summary by Rosenberg et al., 1984).
Genitourinary and/or brain malformation syndrome
MedGen UID:
1720440
Concept ID:
C5394158
Disease or Syndrome
Individuals with PPP1R12A-related urogenital and/or brain malformation syndrome (UBMS) usually present with multiple congenital anomalies, commonly including brain and/or urogenital malformations. The brain abnormalities are variable, with the most severe belonging to the holoprosencephaly spectrum and associated with moderate-to-profound intellectual disability, seizures, and feeding difficulties. In individuals without brain involvement, variable degrees of developmental delay and/or intellectual disability may be present, although normal intelligence has been seen in a minority of affected individuals. Eye abnormalities and skeletal issues (kyphoscoliosis, joint contractures) can also be present in individuals of either sex. Regardless of the presence of a brain malformation, affected individuals with a 46,XY chromosome complement may have a disorder of sex development (DSD) with gonadal abnormalities (dysgenetic gonads or streak gonads). Individuals with a 46,XX chromosome complement may have varying degrees of virilization (clitoral hypertrophy, posterior labial fusion, urogenital sinus).
46,xx sex reversal 5
MedGen UID:
1713956
Concept ID:
C5394441
Disease or Syndrome
SRXX5 is characterized by genital virilization in 46,XX individuals, associated with congenital heart disease and variable somatic anomalies including blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES) and congenital diaphragmatic hernia (Bashamboo et al., 2018).

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Khanna K, Sharma S, Gupta DK
Pediatr Surg Int 2018 Mar;34(3):249-261. Epub 2017 Nov 24 doi: 10.1007/s00383-017-4218-9. PMID: 29177625
Acién P, Acién M
Hum Reprod Update 2016 Jan-Feb;22(1):48-69. Epub 2015 Nov 3 doi: 10.1093/humupd/dmv048. PMID: 26537987
Valentini AL, Giuliani M, Gui B, Laino ME, Zecchi V, Rodolfino E, Ninivaggi V, Manzoni C, Bonomo L
Am J Perinatol 2016 Apr;33(5):425-32. Epub 2015 Oct 21 doi: 10.1055/s-0035-1565996. PMID: 26489064

Recent clinical studies

Therapy

Zilberlicht A, Feiner B, Haya N, Auslender R, Abramov Y
Int Urogynecol J 2016 Nov;27(11):1771-1772. Epub 2016 Jun 20 doi: 10.1007/s00192-016-3065-x. PMID: 27324756
Rink RC, Pope JC, Kropp BP, Smith ER Jr, Keating MA, Adams MC
J Urol 1997 Sep;158(3 Pt 2):1293-7. PMID: 9258198

Prognosis

Turgal M, Ozyuncu O, Yazicioglu A
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2013 Nov;26(17):1728-32. Epub 2013 May 23 doi: 10.3109/14767058.2013.799652. PMID: 23617816
Rink RC, Pope JC, Kropp BP, Smith ER Jr, Keating MA, Adams MC
J Urol 1997 Sep;158(3 Pt 2):1293-7. PMID: 9258198

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