introduction: urinary obstructive disease is one of the most common disorders in urinary system. dilatation which is detected by sonography, is a key finding in obstruction in most of the cases, also could be found following surgery, lithotripsy and vesico–urethral reflux. radioistope diuretic washout renography is a useful method to differentiate mechanical and non mechanical obstruction. mate...

PURPOSE To find patients at high risk of obstructive remnant leaflets after valve ablation among boys with posterior urethral valve (PUV), we evaluated any possible relationship between preoperative findings in our patients and residual obstructive leaflets after valve ablation. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 55 patients with PUV that was treated by t...

introduction: male urethral stricture is a complicated urologic disease that could be successfully treated using internal urethrotomy. laser internal urethrotomy has been used in many cases with favorable outcome in many studies. holmium: yag laser with its incisional properties on tissue is one of the laser types applied for internal urethrotomy. methods: we present a 19 year-old male with his...

Posterior urethral injury is a clinically significant complication of pelvic fractures. The management is complicated by the associated organ injuries, distortion of the pelvic anatomy and the ensuing fibrosis that occurs with urethral injury. We report a review of the outcomes after posterior urethroplasty in the context of pelvic fracture urethral injury.

Medical ultrasound is a particularly useful imaging method used in the diagnosis of urinary foetal anomalies. One such anomaly posterior urethral valve (PUV), which congenital malformation male urethra occurring early gestation life. PUV common cause obstructive uropathy males and death during pregnancy. We report from medical perspective on rare high-risk case detected routine antenatal Botswa...

Posterior urethral stricture or pelvic fracture urethral distraction defect (PFUDD) is relatively uncommon in children. Trauma and iatrogenic injury are the most common causes of stricture occurrence. Given the specificity of children’s urethra, treating their posterior urethral stricture is difficult, specifically for the children with long segment urethral stricture. We report a successful pe...