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      Persistent Mullerian Duct Syndrome with Polysplenia and Short Pancreas: A Case Report

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          Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome is a rare entity and usually presents with common symptoms of undescended testis and hernia. The syndrome is caused by an insufficient amount of Mullerian inhibiting substance or due to the insensitivity of the target organ to Mullerian inhibiting substance. Polysplenia is a rare congenital disease manifested by multiple small accessory spleens. The association of these two entities, Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome and polysplenia, is rare and has not been reported in the literature. We reported a case of a 27 years old male presented with complains of right flank pain and nausea. Ultrasound showed right ureteric calculus with hydronephrosis and elongated soft tissue mass posterior to bladder. Contrast enhanced Computed Tomography showed soft tissue suggestive of infantile uterine structure with multiple splenculi and short pancreas. He was diagnosed as Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome with unilateral cryptorchidism, polysplenia and short pancreas, coincidentally detected while evaluating for ureteric colic. He underwent Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy with stenting for ureteric calculus, however, he refused laparotomy with excision of mullerian structures.

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          Polysplenia syndrome detected in adulthood: report of eight cases and review of the literature.

          To present the computed tomographic (CT) features of the abdominal anomalies consistent with polysplenia syndrome in adults. Awareness of these abnormalities may avoid misdiagnosing characteristic findings as separate pathological processes. Imaging studies, mainly abdominal CT scans, of eight patients were reviewed. Attention was directed to the location of the multiple spleens, stomach, and liver and to the possible presence of a short pancreas, malrotation of the intestine, and venous anomalies. We also reviewed the CT findings of 15 adult patients described in the literature. Three men and five women underwent CT for various unrelated conditions. The most common findings were multiple spleens along the greater curvature of the stomach, which were located in the right upper quadrant in six patients. The inferior vena cava was seen on the left side in seven subjects, with azygos/hemiazygos continuation in six. A preduodenal portal vein was present in seven subjects. The liver was in the midline in four patients and on the left side in two. A short pancreas was seen in four patients, intestinal nonrotation in five, and dextrocardia in two. The prevalence of these anomalies was similar to that of the reviewed cases. CT proved to be an excellent imaging modality in the diagnosis of the abdominal anomalies. Some of these (a short pancreas, multiple spleens, and azygos continuation) can simulate pathological processes. Hence the importance of recognizing these CT findings as part of a syndrome.
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            Polysplenia syndrome with agenesis of the dorsal pancreas and preduodenal portal vein presenting with obstructive jaundice--a case report and literature review.

            Polysplenia, as part of the heterotaxy syndrome, is a rare embryological disorder which results from failure of development of the usual left-right asymmetry of organs. It is often associated with cardiac and biliary abnormalities, which are the usual causes of death in early neonatal life. A congenitally short pancreas and abnormalities with portal vein formation, gut malrotations and inferior vena cava anomalies are known to be associated with this rare syndrome. We report a case of polysplenia in an adult female presenting with obstructive jaundice owing to choledocholithiasis, possibly formed by biliary stasis as a result of compression of the common bile duct by the preduodenal portal vein, and review the literature. The patient was also found to have complete agenesis of the dorsal pancreas on CT and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
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                Journal
                JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc
                JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc
                J Nepal Med Assoc
                JNMA
                JNMA: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association
                Journal of the Nepal Medical Association
                0028-2715
                1815-672X
                April 2019
                30 April 2019
                : 57
                : 216
                : 123-126
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Radiology, B&C Medical College Teaching Hospital , Birtamod, Jhapa, Nepal
                [2 ]Department of Neurosurgery, B&C Medical College Teaching Hospital , Birtamod, Jhapa, Nepal
                [3 ]Department of Urology, B&C Medical College Teaching Hospital , Birtamod, Jhapa, Nepal
                Author notes
                Correspondence: Dr. Dinesh Kumar Thapa, Department of Neurosurgery, B&C Medical College, Teaching Hospital, Birtamod, Jhapa, Nepal. Email: dineshkthapa@ 123456gmail.com , Phone: +9779843123518.
                Article
                10.31729/jnma.4298
                8827582
                31477947
                4a4d8003-ee79-41ce-a7d7-a46d82d6c1f6
                © The Author(s) 2018.

                This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                cryptorchidism,persistent mullerian duct syndrome,short pancreas

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