Laparoscopy combined with transvaginal surgery for Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome: A case report

Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Dec 9;101(49):e32264. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000032264.

Abstract

Background: Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich (HWW) syndrome is a rare congenital Mullerian duct anomaly disease that is characterized by a triad of symptoms, didelphys uterus, blind hemivagina, and ipsilateral renal agenesis. Herein, we reported a case from China.

Case presentation: An 11-year-old patient presented to our hospital with lower abdominal pain and frequent urination. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed hematocolpos, uterine hemorrhage, didelphys uterus, and renal agenesis on the right side. Thus, the patient was diagnosed with HWW syndrome. Laparoscopic combined with transvaginal surgery to remove the vaginal septum, the symptoms of the lesion disappeared after the blood was discharged.

Conclusion: Abnormal urination and other symptoms should be carefully examined in adolescent girls with abdominal pain not menarche, since they may be related to reproductive organ development disorders and other diseases. We recommend laparoscopy combined with transvaginal surgery to remove the oblique septum in HWW syndrome, which is rarely reported.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / etiology
  • Abnormalities, Multiple* / surgery
  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney / abnormalities
  • Laparoscopy* / adverse effects
  • Urogenital Abnormalities* / complications
  • Urogenital Abnormalities* / diagnostic imaging
  • Urogenital Abnormalities* / surgery
  • Uterus / abnormalities
  • Uterus / diagnostic imaging
  • Uterus / surgery
  • Vagina / abnormalities
  • Vagina / surgery

Supplementary concepts

  • Hereditary renal agenesis
  • Uterine Anomalies