Interesting or Different Anatomy:What have you encountered?

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We recently had an adult patient that was born with one ventricle. He had surgery to correct this as a baby, but I found it very interesting. If I was a pediatric cardiology nurse I may see this more often, but not in ophthalmology.

I also "have a friend" who has a dual chamber, unihorn uterus. Many jokes during pregnancy of being like a cow (the chambers).

I was just curious what you have seen while out and about in our wonderful world that is Nursing. Please share.

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
It will wink at you.
:roflmao:...it does doesn't it. I was once called to help the L/D when I worked the ICU they were having trouble with a foley....I thought how hard can that be?

NOTHING was anatomically right down there after delivery!!!!:confused:

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
You don't see old ladies with uterine prolapse as much as we used to because since health insurance for dependents became more accessible in the 60s and 70s, more women had regular GYN care, and they got their prolapses repaired surgically. Some of us oldsters remember pessaries (which are not those cute little South American rodents) of near-infinite design and origin as SUITs (something up in there). Potatoes, even. Sometimes they sprouted. Ah, the good old days.
OMG!!

I forgot all about those!!! :roflmao: There were some strange things found to keep it all in place.....:wacky:

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Have been in on one (ONE, in 35 yr!!) cardiac cath on a pt with dextrocardia.

The Cardiologist performing the cath did the usual, only backwards. :)

Very sad: occluded distal aorta, before the bifurcation.

Pain in the buttocks when walking, so we were supposed to do an angiogram to outline vascular anatomy

There were no fem pulses, so we did the angio from the axillary artery.

Images showed only collaterals feeding the legs.

Have seen many cardiac caths with anomalous vessel origins.

We used to do them trans lumbar.
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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

Woman with extra urethral-like openings. She had a total of 3 (nope, not including the lady parts. that one was easy to identify). Cathed the middle one (the largest), got urine. Then urine started leaking out of one of the others! Yep, that bought her a urology consult. Don't know if it's true or not (or even possible), but I later heard she actually needed to have foleys placed in both!

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.
Woman with extra urethral-like openings. She had a total of 3 (nope, not including the lady parts. that one was easy to identify). Cathed the middle one (the largest), got urine. Then urine started leaking out of one of the others! Yep, that bought her a urology consult. Don't know if it's true or not (or even possible), but I later heard she actually needed to have foleys placed in both!

We had a pt like that in our unit once.

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Specializes in PCCN.

how bout supernumerary nipples? Seen it .

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Had a patient with a teratoma - basically one organ tissue growing somewhere else. He had TEETH growing in a pressure ulcer on his bottom. Not sure what came first. I looked it up and it turns out these tumor like tissues can grow hair or any other organ. HOLY stem cell potential!!!

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Specializes in Trauma-Surgical, Case Management, Clinic.
Had a patient with a teratoma - basically one organ tissue growing somewhere else. He had TEETH growing in a pressure ulcer on his bottom. Not sure what came first. I looked it up and it turns out these tumor like tissues can grow hair or any other organ. HOLY stem cell potential!!!

Oh wow, interesting

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how bout supernumerary nipples? Seen it .

Yes! I didn't know what to say. My patient had 4 sets of nipples. And all the same size. I was putting on her tele monitor.

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For anyone into these things hardly recommend searching out various series from the Burn's Archives. However am here to warn you right now many of the images are *NOT* for those with weak stomachs.

Individual books and or full sets go for hundreds if not thousands, but there are enough bits on the Internet:

THE BURNS ARCHIVE

Giant ovarian tumor Pictures - CBS News

Vintage Tumours And Deformities

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
You don't see old ladies with uterine prolapse as much as we used to because since health insurance for dependents became more accessible in the 60s and 70s more women had regular GYN care, and they got their prolapses repaired surgically. Some of us oldsters remember pessaries (which are not those cute little South American rodents) of near-infinite design and origin as SUITs (something up in there). Potatoes, even. Sometimes they sprouted. Ah, the good old days.[/quote']

Almost missed them! Would have if the same Family Practice doc I mentioned earlier hadn't brought one he had just retrieved to show me.....he seemed so tickled to present this relic I pretended to be as thrilled as he was :-)

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

Yeah, I've seen a prolapsed uterus. That was definitely an interesting sight to behold...

Also had a patient whose entire skin pealed all over the place. I tried to give him a bath, but he just kept flaking EVERYWHERE! I felt so bad for the guy.

Also saw a guy with multiple hernias from his abdomen that looked like Mickey Mouse was in his stomach!

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