The urachus revisited: multimodal imaging of benign & malignant urachal pathology.
Das JP, Vargas HA, Lee A, Hutchinson B, O'Connor E, Kok HK, Torreggiani W, Murphy J, Roche C, Bruzzi J, McCarthy P.
Das JP, et al.
Br J Radiol. 2020 Jun;93(1110):20190118. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20190118. Epub 2020 Feb 20.
Br J Radiol. 2020.
PMID: 32045264
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The urachus is a fibrous tube extending from the umbilicus to the anterosuperior bladder dome that usually obliterates at week 12 of gestation, becoming the median umbilical ligament. Urachal pathology occurs when there is incomplete obliteration of this chan …
The urachus is a fibrous tube extending from the umbilicus to the anterosuperior bladder dome that usually obliterates at week 12 of gestati …