PURPOSE Treatment for urethral stricture disease often requires a choice between readily available direct vision internal urethrotomy (DVIU) and highly efficacious but more technically complex open urethral reconstruction. Using the short segment bulbous urethral stricture as a model, we determined which strategy is less costly. MATERIALS AND METHODS The costs of DVIU and open urethral recons...

OBJECTIVE To compare long- term outcomes of buccal mucosa graft (BMG) augmentation urethroplasty for long segment bulbar urethral strictures done by placing the graft ventrally, dorso-laterally and dorsally. MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a single institution retrospective study on 112 who underwent BMG augmentation urethroplasty for non-traumatic bulbar urethral strictures between January...

No urethral complications were found to have occurred in any of the 30 patients. No surgeries were required, and no incidents of false passages, meatitis or meatal stenosis were detected. Two patients experienced epidydimitis. In four patients who had signs of strictures at the outset of the study from previous use of an indwelling catheter, these signs subsided once CIC using LoFric was initia...

PURPOSE To report our early experience with thermo-expandable urethral stents (Memokath) for the management of recurrent urethral stricture and to assess the efficacy of urethral stents. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between March 2012 and February 2013, 13 patients with recurrent urethral stricture after several attempts with direct visual internal urethrotomy (DVIU) or failed urethroplasty underwen...

PURPOSE Although endoscopic realignment has been accepted as a standard treatment for urethral injuries, the long-term follow-up data on this procedure are not sufficient. We report the long-term outcome of primary endoscopic realignment in bulbous urethral injuries. METHODS Patients with bulbous urethral injuries were treated by primary endoscopic realignment between 1991 and 2005. The opera...