INTRODUCTION A simple technique to dilate urethral stricture using guide wire and sheath dilator has been described in pediatric urology. The aim of this study was to report the long-term outcome of the children who underwent dilation of the urethral stricture using guide wire and sheath dilator. MATERIALS AND METHODS From 1999 to 2004, a total of 52 children with documented urethral strictur...

OBJECTIVE To review the results of the operative treatment of posterior urethral injuries in children. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 29 children (25 boys and two girls, age range 3-14 years) with injuries to the posterior urethra were admitted to this department over 14 years. Twenty-three patients presented immediately after trauma and six were referred after unsuccessful attempt(s) at sur...

BACKGROUND Our objective is to report a comparative review of recently released guidelines for the evaluation, management, and follow-up of urethral stricture disease. METHODS This is an analysis of the American Urologic Association (AUA) and Société Internationale d'Urologie (SIU) guidelines on urethral stricture. Strength of recommendations is stratified according to letter grade that corre...

A 52-year-old man was referred for the evaluation of mild renal failure with severe hypertension (220/130mmHg), which was resistant to combination therapy of a calcium channel blocker and an angiotensin II receptor blocker. Although he reported no past history indicating urolithiasis, urinalysis revealed plenty of round brownish stones (Figure 1A). The stones resembled uric acid (UA) stones (Fi...

BACKGROUND The ability to achieve a long-term, stricture-free urethral repair is one of the ongoing challenges of reconstructive urologic surgery. A successful initial repair is critical, as repeat procedures are difficult, owing to distortion, scarring, and short urethral stumps. METHODS We describe a technique in which the gracilis muscle flap is laid on or wrapped around the urethral repai...

INTRODUCTION Urethral stricture refers to anterior urethral disease, a scarring process involving the spongy erectile tissue of the corpus spongiosum, also referred to as spongiofibrosis 1 . 80% of strictures that are secondary to instrumentation occur at the membranous urethra. The other 20% generally occur at the penoscrotal junction. A study done by Palminteri et al 2 on 1439 patients with u...

Primary adenocarcinoma of the female urethra is rare and only a few retrospective cases have been published. The origin of urethral adenocarcinomas remains unclear. Certain authors have suggested that urethral adenocarcinomas in females originate at the periurethral Skene's glands. We report one case of urethral adenocarcinoma of the proximal urethra in a 44-year-old female who presented with p...

Urethral diverticula are a rare entity. Carcinoma in a urethral diverticulum is a particularly unusual finding with only a little over 200 cases in the reported literature. Adenocarcinoma is the most common carcinoma to occur in a urethral diverticulum. To our knowledge, there are only a handful of cases of signet ring cell adenocarcimona of the urethra and no cases of signet ring adenocarcinom...

Objective: We present our experience with transperineal bulboprostatic anastomotic procedure and compare the results with age of patients, length of urethral stricture, effect of previous treatment and need for urethral mobilisation. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the outcome of 76 patients who underwent perineal urethroplasty procedure for traumatic stricture in our institu...