This report highlights a presentation of urinary calculus impacted at the urethral meatus and bedside extraction after evaluation with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). Visualization of a stone at the urethral meatus prompted a point-of-care ultrasound of the penile shaft and glans. The ultrasound ruled out anatomic variations such as urethral diverticula and as a result bedside removal was exp...

INTRODUCTION Urethral caruncles usually arise from the posterior lip of the urethral meatus. Although the etiology of urethral caruncles is still undetermined, they are the most common benign tumors of the female urethra. Most cases are frequently asymptomatic, but, sometimes patients feel a lump or bleeding at the urethral meatus. Symptoms are dysuria, dyspareunia, hematuria and rarely asensat...

Tissue engineering-based urethral replacement holds potential for repairing large segmental urethral defects, which remains a great challenge at present. This study aims to explore the potential of combining biodegradable poly(l-lactide) (PLLA)/poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) scaffolds and human amniotic mesenchymal cells (hAMSCs) for repairing urethral defects. PLLA/PEG fibrous scaffolds with vari...

Urethra Secondary cancer Urethral caruncle Abstract Secondary female urethral cancer presenting as urethral caruncle is extremely rare. We report a primary ovarian adenocarcinoma in a 78-year-old female patient presented initially as a urethral caruncle. This case represents the first reported case in the world literature. The clinical features, investigations and pertinent literature are revie...

PURPOSE We report the efficacy of an expanded algorithm for penile straightening in proximal hypospadias surgery to preserve the urethral plate for urethroplasty. We also compared ventral corporotomy with grafting to multiple superficial ventral corporotomies without grafting for straightening greater than 30-degree ventral curvature. MATERIALS AND METHODS The need for urethral plate transect...

background: the normal prostate-specific antigen (psa) level in patients with urethral catheterization is a controversy. we designed this study to investigate the effect of nontraumatic urethral catheterization without urinary retention on serum psa. materials and methods: seventy patients scheduled for urethral catheterization before elective surgeries were randomly selected and included in th...

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...

Purpose. The objective was to evaluate the usefulness of transperineal ultrasound in the assessment of the urethral length and urethral lumen by 3D/4D transperineal sonography to discriminate between female patients with subtypes of urinary incontinence. Methods. A total of 150 female patients underwent an examination because of urinary incontinence. 41 patients were diagnosed with urgency urin...

BACKGROUND Anterior urethral stricture remains a great challenge. We reported our clinical technique and results by using inlay dorsal buccal mucosal graft urethroplasty for repair of anterior urethral stricture. METHODS From January 2005 to July 2008, 87 male patients (range from 9 to 72 years old) with anterior urethral stricture have been treated by one-stage dorsal inlay oral mucosal graf...