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Department of Neonatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 1901, 6500 HB,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Pediatric Urology Centre, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
KEYWORDS Abstract A male newborn is described, in whom a large extra-abdominal prevesical pseudo-
Prevesical cyst; cyst as well as prune-belly features were present, both of which were supposedly secondary to
Posterior urethral posterior urethral valves. It is postulated that the subvesical obstruction caused pressure
valves; build-up in the urinary tract, followed by fetal bladder rupture. The resultant urinoma
Prune-belly syndrome; migrated extra-abdominally. Distension of the urinary tract, bilateral cryptorchidism and
Fetal bladder rupture; abdominal wall laxity contributed to a prune-belly phenotype.
Urinoma ª 2009 Journal of Pediatric Urology Company. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
1477-5131/$36 ª 2009 Journal of Pediatric Urology Company. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.jpurol.2009.04.008
92 M. Binkhorst, R.P.E. de Gier