Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to M C Talpallikar.
An unusual case of a 5-year-old boy with duplication of the glans, a rare variety of diphallia, is reported. The two glandes were arranged one above the other, the dorsal glans had only a blind pit while the ventral glans had a patent urethra with glanular hypospadias. The child also had right renal agenesis and a posterior urethral stricture.
A rare form of gastric trichobezoar extending into small bowel with varying gastrointestinal symptoms is known as Rapunzel syndrome. A case history of 6 years old boy is described. This is the twelfth patient with Rapunzel syndrome in the literature.
The incidence of horseshoe kidney (HK) is estimated at 1 in 400 cases. The occurrence of Wilms' tumor (WT) in a HK is an uncommon event, estimated at 0.4%-0.9% of all WTs. We report a case of WT arising from the isthmus of a HK and review the literature on the subject.
Gastric teratoma is a rare tumor of infancy, almost exclusively found in males. We report a 6-month-old male child with gastric teratoma who presented with gastrointestinal bleeding; he was treated successfully with local excision of the tumor.