Urethral duplication in a child with VATER association

Urethral duplication (UD) is a rare anomaly with about 300 cases reported to date, usually seen in males and often associated with a number of anomalies involving other organs.1 Effmann's classification2 has described three types of urethral duplication. One out of three patients has an associated vesicoureteric reflux (VUR).3 In type I which is also the most common type, the urethra is partially duplicated and is almost always asymptomatic,...