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Purpose To determine whether preoperative urethra mobility is able to predict sub-urethra tape procedure outcome for women with urinary stress incontinence. Materials and methods This retrospective study included 78 women who underwent a complete work-up with preoperative standing urethrocystography. Proximal urethra support was assessed on lateral urethrocystograms taken at rest and at strain....

Background: Foreign body insertion in the urethra and bladder are relatively rare. These patients usually insert foreign body in urethra for eroticism, inquisitiveness, or as a consequence of disinhibited or disturbed behavior. Case presentation: Herein, we report a case of 41-year-old man presented with weak stream and suprapubic pain. Due to incontinence, he instilled superglue into his uret...

Ascending and descending techniques are used to demonstrate the male anterior urethra. The authors developed an ultrasound approach with the patient compressing his own urethra manually during voiding to achieve distension of the urethra with urine. The subsequent sonourethrography is more accurate than conventional fluoroscopic contrast studies in defining urethral filling defects and is as ac...

Suburethral tapes are placed "tension-free" below the urethra. Several studies reported considerable differences of the distance between urethra and tape. These distances ranged from 1 to 10 mm amongst different patients. This either caused urethral obstruction or had no effect on urinary incontinence. Therefore, we decided to standardize the procedure by placing a Hegar dilator of 8-millimeter...

We present a 76-year-old male patient, who was diagnosed with transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the distal part of the urethra. Transurethral resection of the tumor (TURT) of the urethra was conducted. After establishing local relapse, surgical removal of the distal part of the urethra was proposed to the patient. Due to no consent for an open surgery, another electroresection of the tumor w...

Carcinoma of the urethra is a rare finding in both man and the dog. Sticker, Hutyra and Marek, ]oest, Nieberle and Cohrs, and Feldman, all of whom have reported on a large series of animal tumors, made no mention of carcinoma of the urethra in the dog. We were able to find no reference to a similar case in the veterinary medical literature. Carcinoma of the urethra is probably as rare an occurr...

Urethral duplication is a rare congenital anomaly. In addition to a normally urethra, there is an accessory urethra arising from the bladder or the proximal urethra which may open anywhere on the penis or even on the perineum. Many patients with this malformation are asymptomatic. Some patients may complain of intermittent discharge from the accessory urethra, incontinence, infection, double st...