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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus IV: Organ Systems

Types of Double Urethra

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
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In a, the rarest type, the duplication is complete; in bthe distal part is duplicated through a forking of the single urethra present proximally; in can accessory urethra (which may be either dorsal or ventral to the normal one) has a blind end proximally; in dthe proximal part of the urethra forks, the accessory urethra opening at the junction of penis and scrotum.

See Gross and Moore, 1950; Irmisch and Cook, 1946; O'Heeron and Webster, 1946.

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