Urogenital sinus

Urogenital sinus

Urogenital sinus of female human embryo of eight and a half to nine weeks old. (Urogenital sinus labeled at bottom.)

Stages in the development of the external sexual organs in the male and female. ("Opening of urogenital sinus" labeled in diagram D.)
Details
Carnegie stage 15
Precursor Cloaca
Gives rise to urethra, bladder, vagina
Identifiers
Latin sinus urogenitalis definitivus
Code TE E5.7.3.1.0.0.1

Anatomical terminology

The urogenital sinus is a part of the human body only present in the development of the urinary and reproductive organs. It is the ventral part of the cloaca, formed after the cloaca separates from the anal canal during the fourth to seventh weeks of development.[1]

In males, the UG sinus is divided into three regions: upper, pelvic, and phallic. The upper part gives rise to the urinary bladder and the pelvic part gives rise to the prostatic and membranous parts of the urethra.[1]

In females, the pelvic part of the UG sinus gives rise to the sinovaginal bulbs, structures that will eventually form the inferior two thirds of the vagina. This process begins when the lower tip of the paramesonephric ducts, the structures that will eventually form the uterus and vaginal fornices, come in contact with the UG sinus. Shortly afterwards, the sinovaginal bulbs form as two solid evaginations of the UG sinus. Cells in these bulbs divide to form a solid vaginal plate, which extends and then canalizes (hollows) to form the inferior portion of the vagina.[2]

Clinical significance

A urogenital sinus anomaly is also a rare birth defect in women where the urethra and vagina both open into a common channel.[3]

A persistent cloaca is a disorder where the rectum, vagina, and urinary tract meet and fuse, creating a cloaca, a single common channel.[4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Sadler, T.W. (2010). Langman's Medical Embryology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 243–244. ISBN 978-0-7817-9069-7.
  2. ↑ Sadler, T.W. (2010). Langman's Medical Embryology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-7817-9069-7.
  3. ↑ Gerald N N Callahan. Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes. Chicago Review Press, 2009. p. 182.
  4. ↑ Jenkins D, Bitner-Glindzicz M, Thomasson L, et al. (2007), "Mutational analyses of UPIIIA, SHH, EFNB2 and HNF1β in persistent cloaca and associated kidney malformations", J Pediatr Urol 3 (1): 2–9, doi:10.1016/j.jpurol.2006.03.002, PMC 1864944, PMID 17476318.

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