Annals of Pediatric Surgery

Table 1 Histopathological findings in primary and re-operated patients

From: Histopathology of intersymphyseal band and its correlation with continence in bladder exstrophy repair

	Primary surgery		Re-surgery		Total
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Smooth muscle	25	96.2%	0	0.0%	25	75.8%
Mixed tissue	1	3.8%	3	42.9%	4	12.1%
Fibrous tissue^a	0	0.0%	4	57.1%	4	12.1%
Total	26		7		33	100.0%

^aAll patients with fibrous tissue were re-operated patients and probably healed by fibrosis

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