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Article: New findings from Royal Manchester Children's Hospital describe advances in bladder exstrophy.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 19, 2008
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According to a study from Manchester, the United Kingdom, "Most attempts to create an umbilicus in the exstrophy abdomen eventually leave the end result of a flat scar rather than an inverted structure. We describe a technique that allows the creation of a better looking inverted umbilicus."
"A total of 19 patients between 5 days and 7 years old underwent umbilicoplasty. At the apex of the vertical midline wound the skin and superficial fascia are elevated off the anterior rectus sheath well beyond the top of the skin incision. The skin edge at the most superior apex of the wound is sutured to the linea alba, thereby inverting the skin and fixing it to the ...