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Incidental adult posterior urethral valve without clinical features

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Posterior urethral valves are usually detectedduring infancy by prenatal sonography. Less isknown about presentation and outcome in olderpatients. We are describing a patient whopresented with renal stones and was foundincidentally on cystoscopy to have Type Iurethral valves.

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Urology, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

    İsmail Türker Köksal, Mustafa Usta, Tibet Erdoŭru, Mutlu Ateş, Erdal Kukul & Mehmet Baykara

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Köksal, İ.T., Usta, M., Erdoŭru, T. et al. Incidental adult posterior urethral valve without clinical features. Int Urol Nephrol 35, 227–229 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:UROL.0000020294.84579.a4

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