Background: Iatrogenic urethral injury is a well-known risk of urinary catheter insertion. Associated morbidities include stricture formation, catheter associated infection, risk for instrumentation, and extended length of stay. Yet, insufficient attention is paid to its prevention. Objective: This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a computerized...

There is a possibility that unnecessary treatments and low-quality medical care, such as inappropriate indwelling urethral catheter use, are being provided to older Japanese individuals.The aim of this study was to investigate contextual effects relating to indwelling urethral catheters in older people with dementia and to clarify the effects of indwelling urethral catheter use on patients' mor...

BACKGROUND Urethral calculi are rare and usually encountered in males with urethral pathology. OBJECTIVE To present our experience managing urethral calculi in a resource limited centre and review the literature. METHODS We did a chart review of management of patients with urethral calculi between January and April 2009, at Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Azare, Nigeria. We also reviewed the l...

INTRODUCTION A simple technique to dilate urethral stricture using guide wire and sheath dilator has been described in pediatric urology. The aim of this study was to report the long-term outcome of the children who underwent dilation of the urethral stricture using guide wire and sheath dilator. MATERIALS AND METHODS From 1999 to 2004, a total of 52 children with documented urethral strictur...

OBJECTIVE To review the results of the operative treatment of posterior urethral injuries in children. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 29 children (25 boys and two girls, age range 3-14 years) with injuries to the posterior urethra were admitted to this department over 14 years. Twenty-three patients presented immediately after trauma and six were referred after unsuccessful attempt(s) at sur...

BACKGROUND Our objective is to report a comparative review of recently released guidelines for the evaluation, management, and follow-up of urethral stricture disease. METHODS This is an analysis of the American Urologic Association (AUA) and Société Internationale d'Urologie (SIU) guidelines on urethral stricture. Strength of recommendations is stratified according to letter grade that corre...

INTRODUCTION Urethral stricture refers to anterior urethral disease, a scarring process involving the spongy erectile tissue of the corpus spongiosum, also referred to as spongiofibrosis 1 . 80% of strictures that are secondary to instrumentation occur at the membranous urethra. The other 20% generally occur at the penoscrotal junction. A study done by Palminteri et al 2 on 1439 patients with u...

Primary adenocarcinoma of the female urethra is rare and only a few retrospective cases have been published. The origin of urethral adenocarcinomas remains unclear. Certain authors have suggested that urethral adenocarcinomas in females originate at the periurethral Skene's glands. We report one case of urethral adenocarcinoma of the proximal urethra in a 44-year-old female who presented with p...

Urethral diverticula are a rare entity. Carcinoma in a urethral diverticulum is a particularly unusual finding with only a little over 200 cases in the reported literature. Adenocarcinoma is the most common carcinoma to occur in a urethral diverticulum. To our knowledge, there are only a handful of cases of signet ring cell adenocarcimona of the urethra and no cases of signet ring adenocarcinom...