To cite: Patil S, Goel A, Singh V, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013202180 DESCRIPTION A 52-year-old man, with a known case of catheterinduced stricture urethra, presented with swelling and pain in the right scrotum with a high-grade fever for 8 days following an attempt of urethral stricture dilation using metallic bougie for urinary ret...

OBJECTIVE To elucidate which anatomical sites need to be sampled to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in the lower male genital tract. METHOD In an HPV survey of Mexican soldiers (median age 24 years; range 16-50 years), a cell sample from 2 cm deep into the distal urethra (group 1; n = 168 men), or 0.5 cm deep into the meatus urethralis (group 2; n = 414 men) was collected, along w...

OBJECTIVES Although it is well recognized that a small meatus after canal wall down (CWD) tympanomastoidectomy can cause a lifetime problem, unsatisfactory results are frequently encountered. We herein introduce a novel technique, perichondrial posterior fixation (PPF), to maintain a wide external auditory canal (EAC), to minimize postoperative wound infection due to the smaller dead space and ...

A 4-day-old Holstein bull calf with considerable oedema of the belly (water belly) was referred to theVeterinary Teaching Hospital of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University. The owner did notobserve any urination since birth. Rupture of the urethra was suspected. Perineal urethrotomy was performed. Subsequently, catheterization of urethra revealed the obstruction near the external...

Coordination of the bladder detrusor and the external urethral sphincter is a supraspinally controlled reflex that is essential for efficient micturition. This coordination is permanently lost after spinal cord transection but can recover chronically after incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). As glutamatergic transmission plays a key role in all levels of detrusor-external urethral sphincter co...

Primary non-gonococcal urethritis of venereal origin is usually abacterial. This is also the case when the disease follows rectal coitus (Harkness, 1950). When organisms are present in the secretions in untreated cases the disease is more likely to have been caused by infections descending from a urethral stricture, the prostate, or lesions of the upper urinary tract. It can also be caused mech...

INTRODUCTION Various cases of self-inflicted foreign body insertion into the urethra have been reported in adult males. The most common motive for such acts has been postulated as autoerotic stimulation, psychiatric illness or intoxication. CASE PRESENTATION A 40-year-old male presented with a partially inserted tongue cleaner in his urethra with one end projecting from the urethral meatus an...

My contribution to this discussion is concerned with obstructions in the anterior urethra: they are not very common, but because we are so often concerned with congenital obstructions of the posterior urethra and of the bladder neck there is a tendency to overlook anything between the external meatus and the external sphincter. I shall not comment on meatal stenosis which is well known to us al...