Upon Some Histological Changes in the Chronically Inflamed Male Urethra

Diseases of the Male Urethra

This should prove a distinctly useful little book. The opening chapters deal with the anatomy of the urethra, history and bacteriology of gonorrhoea. The last chapter contains many quotations from Carl C. Warden's work on the gonococcus which is against a good deal of the generally accepted views on the subject. The morphology of the gonococcus is shown to be of great variability, his experienc...

Mucocoele of male urethra.

Mucocoele or mucoid cyst may occur in any part of the urethra and is usually asymptomatic. McCrea (1940), quoting Ottow, explains the origin of these cysts on the assumption that the lips of the primitive urethral opening have failed to unite in their entirety. If this failure is confined to the urethral epithelium, a mucoid cyst or mucocoele results. A case is presented below in which the situ...

A Leech in the Male Urethra

By MON MOHAN GHOSH, l.b.di\ Medical Officer In-Charge, Kamalganj Dispensary, Sylhet Soabulla, aged 35 years, came to this dispensary on 10th November, .1932, and gave the following history :? When washing jute in a pool of water he felt a pricking sensation in his penis. He came out of the water and was frightened to see that a big leech was entering his urinary canal. The leech entered the can...

The Diseases of the Male Urethra

The length of the male urethra.

PURPOSE Catheter-based medical devices are an important component of the urologic armamentarium. To our knowledge, there is no population-based data regarding normal male urethral length. We evaluated the length of the urethra in men with normal genitourinary anatomy undergoing either Foley catheter removal or standard cystoscopy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Male urethral length was obtained in 109...