Urinary catheterization is a common procedure, particularly among patients with neurogenic bladder secondary to spinal cord injury. Urethral catheterization is associated with the well-recognized complications of catheter-associated urinary tract infections and limited genitourinary trauma. Unintentional ureteral cannulation represents a rare complication of urethral catheterization and has bee...

OBJECTIVES Tensile distracting forces caused by elements such as a muscle pull can cause widening of scars in the tissue during the wound healing process. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether induced immobilization of the urethral muscle using botulinum toxin-A (BTX-A) enhances wound healing and also reduces the amount of scar formation in an experimentally induced urethral i...

INTRODUCTION Suprapubic cystostomy is performed in spinal cord injury patients in order to prevent complications associated with long-term urethral catheter drainage. We report a patient in whom suprapubic catheter did not drain urine satisfactorily and imaging studies revealed hourglass bladder. CASE PRESENTATION A female patient sustained paraplegia in a traffic accident in 1994 at the age ...

Background: Urethroplasty is the surgical repair of an injury or defect within walls urethra. Trauma, iatrogenic and infections are most common causes urethral injury/defect requiring repair. regarded as go treatment for strictures offers better outcomes in terms recurrence rates than dilatations urethrotomies. It probably only useful modality long complex though higher this difficult group. Ca...

INTRODUCTION Penile fracture is an uncommon urologic emergency, and is the traumatic rupture of the tunica albuginea covering the corpus cavernosa. This usually occurs following blunt trauma sustained during coitus, masturbation or self-manipulations to hide or suppress an erection. Clinical diagnosis can often be easily made with typical history and examination findings. However, the patient m...