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The woman afterward confessed that she was perfectly aware of her deformity, but was ashamed to disclose it before.
There was an analogue of this case found by Mercurialis in a child of a Jew called Teutonicus. Gerster reports a rare form of imperforate anus, with malposition of the left ureter, obliteration of the ostia of both ureters, with consequent hydronephrosis of a confluent kidney.
There was a minute opening into the bladder, which allowed the passage of meconium through the urethra.
Burge mentions the case of what he calls "sexless child," in which there was an imperforate anus and no pubic arch; the ureters discharged upon a tumor the size of a teacup extending from the umbilicus to the pubes.
A postmortem examination confirmed the diagnosis of sexless child. The Liver .-- The Ephemerides, Frankenau, von Home, Molinetti, Schenok, and others speak of deficient or absent liver.
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