RECONSTRUCTIVE surgery of the anterior urethra for hypospadias, fistulas or strictures, presents the surgeon with many problems. While the usual methods of repair may give good results, complications and failures still occur and a more reliably effective procedure would be welcome. A study of the post-operative course in a series of cases, the results of which were published in 1964, revealed f...

INTRODUCTION Urethroplasty with oral mucosa grafting is the most popular technique for treating nontraumatic bulbar urethral strictures; however, cases involving the membranous portion are usually treated using progressive perineal anastomotic urethroplasty. We assessed the feasibility of performing dorsal (or ventral) graft urethroplasty on bulbar urethral strictures with mainly membranous inv...

OBJECTIVES To describe our experience with 'minipatch' penile skin graft (PSG) urethroplasty, as at our institution we prefer excision and primary anastomosis (EPA) urethroplasty whenever feasible, as it gives better outcomes than substitution urethroplasty. However, despite careful preoperative planning, the unanticipated need for a small graft is occasionally recognised intra-operatively, and...

Urethral stricture repair, irrespective of the underlying etiology, has been a challenge for urologic surgeons for decades. However, surgical techniques are continually evolving and the overall success rates keep improving. Focusing on bulbar urethroplasty, the most common causes in the industrialized countries are external trauma and prior instrumentation. Short bulbar urethral strictures meas...

INTRODUCTION Our aim was to evaluate the results of early versus delayed internal urethrotomy for management of recurrent urethral strictures after posterior urethroplasty in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty boys with proven posterior urethral strictures were treated by perineal posterior urethroplasty. Of these, 12 required internal urethrotomy. Each radiograph demonstrated a patent bu...