background: using bouginage or balloon dilatation is the standard treatment for benign esophageal strictures. aùžbout two-thirds need repeated dilatations. for preventing recurrent strictures, many medications such as mitomycin-c have been used. mitomycin-c is a special antibiotic with anti-neoplastic characteristics, which inhibits fibroblast proliferation, reduces collagen production and decr...

background: the treatment of urethral stricture in female patients is through dilatation of the urethra by tubes of increasing diameter. there are two main methods: intermittent dilatation and on demand dilatation. objectives: the main aim of this study was to compare the results of these two methods, and to determine the best one. patients and methods: in this clinical trial study, we reviewed...

Malignant strictures of the proximal to mid small bowel have been successfully managed by deploying enteral stents with the use of an overtube [1,2]. In case reports and published series, stents have been deployed only to the ligament of Treitz and rarely into the proximal jejunum [3,4]. We present here the case of a benign stricture in the distal jejunum managed by deploying a partially covere...

Introduction  Circumcision is the most widely practised surgical procedure in the world. One sixth of the male popuiation have a ritual circumcision. The procedure was formerly exclusively per­formed by lay practitioners, jewish rabbis and barbers with physicians playing no role in the performance and it was a purely religious rite up to the late 19th Century.  Abraham apparently first advoca...

Introduction. In order to improve the results of surgical treatment urethral stricture in men, it is extremely important accurately diagnose preoperative changes. From this point view, seems promising use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diagnosis, assessment which subject literature review. Materials and methods. The review based on articles published throughout history scientific peer-reviewe...

OBJECTIVE Retrograde urethrography (RUG) is the most common and preferred imaging modality for imaging of the anterior urethral strictures despite its well-known limitations and disadvantages. Sonourethrography (SUG) was introduced in 1988 to overcome the limitations of RUG and to provide more accurate results. As proper selection of imaging modality is very important for planning the treatment...

An endoscopic transpapillary mapping biopsy is useful for evaluating intraepithelial tumor spread in bile duct cancers [1,2]; however, it is occasionally technically difficult to advance the biopsy forceps through a biliary stricture. Here, we describe the case of a patient with a hilar biliary stricture who underwent a selective mapping biopsy. The biopsy technique described is suitable where ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the outcome of delayed end-to-end anastomotic urethroplasty in blind post-traumatic stricture of posterior urethra at our setup. STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Quaid-e-Azam Medical College/Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur, from January 2009 to June 2011. METHODOLOGY Adult patients with comp...

BACKGROUND Prediction of the severity of esophageal injury following ingestion of a caustic substance is a challenging problem for clinicians. It was hoped that risk factors for the early prediction of esophageal stricture in such patients could be identified in this study. METHODS This study comprises an evaluation of 32 children with esophageal injury due to ingestion of caustic materials. ...

Intestinal stricture is a severe and common complication of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), causing severe and prolonged morbidity. Our goal was to investigate the clinical predictors for strictures developing after NEC and evaluate the management outcome of the post-NEC strictures to better orient their medicosurgical care.A total of 188 patients diagnosed with NEC with identical treatment pr...