There are many management options for patients with urethral stricture disease. Regarding strictures of the bulbar urethra, ideal management strategies remain controversial. This article reviews important anatomic principles for surgeons…
Urethral stricture disease continues to be a common problem for patients and urologists alike. Endoscopic treatment offers a simple, potentially effective treatment of primary, short, urethral strictures. For patients who…
Following failed endoscopic intervention, the most cost-effective strategy for recurrent urethral stricture disease (USD) is urethroplasty. Inpatient hospital costs associated with urethroplasty are driven by patient comorbidities and postoperative complications….
The definition of a successful urethroplasty, the lack of need for a secondary procedure, is outdated and must be amended to incorporate objective and subjective outcomes. Success is assigned if…
Lee C. Zhao, MD, MS, Editor The management of urethral stricture has been revolutionized in the past 20 years with the popularization of buccal mucosa graft for adult urethroplasty, and…
