Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8461919 | Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger | 2011 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
The vaginal descent is classically regarded as a relative topographical change, but it is likely to be a result of elongation of the proximal urethra in the superior side of the vaginal merging. Conversely, the distal urethra is likely to be incorporated into the vaginal vestibulum by 15 weeks. During these processes, most of the female external sphincter seems to be expelled from the original anterior position into the vestibular wall as the urethrovaginal sphincter. The adult female urethra seems to correspond to the male prostatic urethra superior to the prostatic colliculus.
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Authors
Hiroshi Masumoto, Jose Francisco RodrÃguez-Vázquez, Samuel Verdugo-López, Gen Murakami, Akio Matsubara,