Leiomyoma of the Male Urethra

Leiomyoma of female urethra.

A 28-year-old female presented with painful swelling of vulva and dysuria of 2 weeks duration. She had frequent painful micturition but no retention of urine. She had normal menstrual cycles. On examination (exam), a firm tender swelling of 2 9 1.5 cm size was found protruding from external urethral meatus, obliterating lumen (Fig. 1). Anterior vaginal wall was normal and no purulent discharge ...

A Case Report of Urethra Leiomyoma in a Young Woman

Leiomyoma of the female urethra is a rare condition and there have been only 35-40 reported cases in literature. We report a 20-year-old woman who had referred with a painless mass in her vaginal vestibule, dysparonia dysuria and previouse history of urine retention for two times. After clinical examination, imaging studies (US, MRI) and cystoscopy a mass in urethra protruding to vagina and bla...

Diseases of the Male Urethra

This should prove a distinctly useful little book. The opening chapters deal with the anatomy of the urethra, history and bacteriology of gonorrhoea. The last chapter contains many quotations from Carl C. Warden's work on the gonococcus which is against a good deal of the generally accepted views on the subject. The morphology of the gonococcus is shown to be of great variability, his experienc...

Mucocoele of male urethra.

Mucocoele or mucoid cyst may occur in any part of the urethra and is usually asymptomatic. McCrea (1940), quoting Ottow, explains the origin of these cysts on the assumption that the lips of the primitive urethral opening have failed to unite in their entirety. If this failure is confined to the urethral epithelium, a mucoid cyst or mucocoele results. A case is presented below in which the situ...

The Diseases of the Male Urethra