4-Year-Old Female Patient with Right Colostomy at Birth (Hendren Patient Case)
- 4-year-old girl sent from abroad in 1986
- Right colostomy at birth
- At age 4 months, posterior sagittal operation was attempted, but abandoned after the UGS was inadvertently transected
- An S.P. tube was placed
- 8 months later, colostomy was closed and a stricture of the neourethra was opened endoscopically
- Patient was sullen, unhappy, and uncommunicative when first seen