OBJECTIVE To determine the role of ascending urethrogram in decision making for patients with suspected urethral strictures. METHODS Medical Records were reviewed of male patients presenting with lower urinary tract symptoms who were subjected to ascending urethrogram and selected cases for cystourethroscopy from January 2001 to December 2002. Cystourethroscopy was performed on those patients...

OBJECTIVES We attempted to clarify the mechanism underlying lower bile duct stricture in autoimmune pancreatitis. METHODS Imaging and histologic finding of the bile duct were assessed for 73 patients with autoimmune pancreatitis to clarify whether IgG4-related biliary inflammation or pancreatic head swelling is associated with lower bile duct stricture. RESULTS Lower bile duct stricture was...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The development of colonic stenosis is a rare complication of Crohn's disease (CD) without a surgical anastomosis history. So, the management and long-term follow-up results of colonic stricture due to CD have not been clearly defined. In this study, we aimed to characterize de novo colonic stricture due to CD. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated 702 patients with CD to investi...

OBJECTIVE Therapy for anterior combined with posterior urethral stricture is difficult and controversial. This study aims to introduce a standard process for managing anterior combined with posterior urethral stricture. PATIENTS AND METHODS 19 patients with anterior combined with posterior urethral stricture were treated following our standard process. Average (range) age was 52 (21-72) years...

Background: The conventional method of repair of anterior urethral stricture with dilatation and Visual Internal Urethrotomy (VIU) resulted in high recurrence. Hence buccal mucosa is used for long term stricture free interval and is an effective measure of preventing stricture recurrence. Objectives: 1) To determine the presentation, aetiology, age distribution and associated symptoms of anteri...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIM The incidence of stricture formation caused by endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for widespread lesions is high, and stricture formation can reduce quality of life. We evaluated the prophylactic efficacy of hybrid therapy using a locoregional steroid injection and polyglycolic acid (PGA) sheets with fibrin glue to prevent stricture formation after esophageal ESD in...

paravenous injections of polidocanol (3%). Twenty patients (59%) developed stricture or dysphagia; 14 both dysphagia and endoscopically verified stricture, two dysphagia without stricture, and four stricture without dysphagia. Both phenomena occurred intermittently and often independent of each other, but occupied median 38% of the observation time in these 20 patients. The patients developing ...

A 4-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital with a 4-year history of vomiting and bucking. He had a diagnosis of esophageal atresia at Day 2 after birth and underwent surgery. Stricture formed 1 year after surgery. Prior to admission, he had undergone balloon dilation four times, stenting twice, and surgery once. Esophageal barium meal examination showed two strictures in the middle and lower...

Objective. To determine the long-term stricture-free rate after visual internal urethrotomy following initial and follow-up urethrotomies. Methods. The records of all male patients who underwent direct visual internal urethrotomy for urethral stricture disease in our hospital between July 2004 and May 2012 were reviewed. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to analyze stricture-free probability aft...