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Complicated male urethral strictures: Presentation and management

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Among 104 patients with urethral strictures treated over a period of 3 years, sixty-five (63%) had complications such as inflammatory periurethral mass, watering-can perineum with discharging sinuses and fistulas, associated urethral calculi, periurethral abscesses and urethral diverticula.

Seventy-four per cent of the stricutres were of inflammatory origin and they predominated in the region of the bulbar urethra.

Thirty-two patients were treated by visual internal urethrotomy, 11 had two-stage urethroplasty and 9 had perineal urethrostomy. Other methods of treatment and their results are discussed.

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Sharfi, A.R. Complicated male urethral strictures: Presentation and management. International Urology and Nephrology 21, 491–497 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02549587

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