Female urethral strictures are rare; thus, the literature describing stricture management in women is sparse. Although urethral dilation continues to be performed at a high frequency in women despite lack of proven efficacy, this procedure is used for a variety of voiding complaints other than stricture. Hence, the long-term utility of dilation and urethrotomy for urethral stricture in women is...

PURPOSE Endoscopic urethrotomy is an alternative method in treatment of urethral stricture. However, it have high recurrence rate because of the remained fibrotic tissue. Removal of the fibrotic tissue can maintain the patency of the urethral lumen after the procedure. We report the therapeutic efficacy of our initial experience using pediatric resectoscope for treating anterior urethral strict...

Introduction. Urethral stricture disease is one of the most actual problems modern urology, and number this pathology in population increases year to year. To date, a large surgical methods for treating urethral strictures have been proposed. This study represents our experience treatment short-length bulbous strictures. Purpose study. analyze results patients with Materials methods. A retrospe...

PURPOSE We compiled all cases of urethral injury received in battle during the Civil War to detail their management and determine the outcome of treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Surgeon medical reports of individual cases of urethral injury listed in the Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War, and pension records available in the National Archives and Records Administration were review...

UNLABELLED In a beautifully descriptive paper, authors from Rio de Janeiro and San Francisco report a quantitative and qualitative histological analysis of spongiosal tissue in patients with bulbar urethral strictures. They found that stricture formation was characterised by major alterations in extracellular matrix features. OBJECTIVE To report a quantitative and qualitative histological ana...

OBJECTIVE To assess the outcome of single stage dorsolateral onlay buccal mucosal urethroplasty for long anterior urethral strictures (>4cm long) using a perineal incision. MATERIALS AND METHODS From August 2010 to August 2013, 20 patients underwent BMG urethroplasty. The cause of stricture was Lichen sclerosis in 12 cases (60%), Instrumentation in 5 cases (25%), and unknown in 3 cases (15%)....

AIM To investigate the transformation of characteristics of epidermal cells from foreskin which were used to reconstruct male rabbit anterior urethra in combination with acellular collagen matrices. METHODS In three rabbits, autologous foreskin epidermal cells were isolated, expanded in vitro, and seeded (inoculated) onto a tubular acellular collagen matrix, acquired from allogeneic rabbit bl...

AIMS To analyze the results of balloon dilatation for short segment male urethral strictures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective analysis was done of 120 patients undergoing urethral balloon dilatation since January 2004 to January 2012. The inclusion criteria for analysis was a short segment (less than 1.5 cm) stricture, exclusion criteria were pediatric, long (more than 1.5 cm), traumatic,...

Originally developed for vascular use, the concept of maintaining the patency of a lumen with a self-retaining endoprosthesis dates back to 1969. In 1980, Fabian was the first to describe the use of a stent in the lower urinary tract to maintain patency of the prostatic urethra in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia [1]. Subsequently, the indications expanded to include treatment of detr...