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...

Urethral perforation due to a foreign body self-inserted into the urethra is quite rare, although such foreign bodies themselves are not uncommon in clinical urologic practice. Two cases of a self-inserted urethral foreign body leading to anterior urethral perforation have been reported in the English-language literature. However, there are no case reports of urethral perforation or penetration...

Primary Sphincter Mechanism Incompetence (PSMI) (idiopathic incontinence, hormone-responsive incontinence) is the most common and important acquired cause of incontinence in dogs. It largely is a condition of spayed female dogs, but in some breeds incontinence may precede ovariohysterectomy (OHE). Decreases in maximal urethral closure pressure and functional urethral length predictably occur du...

The aim of this study was to reveal the clinical features of anterior urethral recurrence in patients with superficial bladder cancer, and to determine the appropriate treatment. Three hundred and three patients with superficial bladder cancer, who were newly diagnosed and initially treated conservatively in our hospital between 1965 and 1990, were followed for at least 5 years and their clinic...

OBJECTIVE To determine the etiological role of pathogens other than Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis in urethral discharge in West African men. METHODS Urethral swabs were obtained from 659 male patients presenting with urethral discharge in 72 primary health care facilities in seven West African countries, and in 339 controls presenting for complaints unrelated to the genitour...

OBJECTIVE To assess the presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in urethral and urine specimens from men with and without sexually transmitted diseases. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Two London departments of genitourinary medicine PATIENTS 100 men with urethral gonorrhoea, 31 men with penile warts and 37 men with genital dermatoses. METHODS Urethral and urine specimens were take...

Parameatal urethral cysts are a rare benign condition usually seen in males. They are usually asymptomatic but may producesymptoms like difficulty in micturition, pain during intercourse, urinary retention and distortion of the urinary stream. We reporta case of parameatal urethral cyst in a 17 year old male presenting as a spherical clear fluid filled cystic lesion measuring about 0.8cm in dia...