1. Endourethrotomy of Posterior Urethral Obliterations and Severe Strictures: Improved Outcome with Urethral Self-Dilatation
- Author
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Mohammad F.A. Alzimaity, Hisham A. Mosli, Ahmed A. Bahnassy, and Hassan M. A. Farsi
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Urology ,Endoscopic management ,Ureteroscopy ,medicine ,Humans ,Postoperative Period ,Child ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Urethral Stricture ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Retrospective cohort study ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Dilatation ,Fibrosis ,Surgery ,Lower incidence ,Stenosis ,Treatment Outcome ,Urethra ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Male patient ,Urine flow ,business ,Follow-Up Studies ,Ureteral Obstruction - Abstract
Eighteen male patients underwent endoscopic management of urethral obliterations and severe strictures of the subprostatic urethra. Thirteen patients who performed clean urethral self-dilatation after endoscopic repair had a lower incidence of recurrent strictures (P = 0.03) and required fewer visual internal urethrotomies than the initial five patients, who did not self-dilate (P = 0.01). All patients had minimal morbidity and required short hospitalization to achieve adequate urine flow and a stable urethral neolumen during the follow-up period.
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- 1996