Clinical outcome of treating intractable hematospermia using holmium laser incision through a ureteroscope

the simple ureteroscopy.5 More invasive resectoscopy may have lower recurrence rate, but it may pose a higher risk of damaging the rectal sphincter or even the rectum.6 Wang et al.2 reported that in 162 intractable or refractory hematospermia cases, seven cases relapsed after 3 months and four cases remained unalleviated. We reported here that in 43 patients, we used the holmium laser incision through a ureteroscope to treat the intractable hematospermia and compared the outcome with that of 24 patients who were treated earlier using the simple ureteroscopy.