Management of urinary incontinence in girls with congenital pouch colon

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• Girls with congenital pouch colon often have urinary incontinence due to short wide urethra and incompetent bladder neck.
• Bladder neck reconstruction alone showed limited success, with 4 of 6 patients still having severe incontinence postoperatively.
• Bladder neck closure with augmentation cystoplasty and continent stoma achieved satisfactory continence in all patients.
• Intraoperative vaginal tears occurred in all 4 bladder neck closure cases, requiring careful surgical technique in this anatomy.
• Primary bladder neck closure should be considered for unfavorable lower urinary tract anatomy or failed reconstruction.

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