OBJECTIVES To observe the phenomenon of human ejaculation dynamically using color Doppler ultrasonography. METHODS Human ejaculation was observed using transrectal color Doppler ultrasonography in a healthy man and a patient with retrograde ejaculation. Ejaculation was induced manually with audiovisual sexual stimulation. The ejaculatory phenomenon was analyzed and compared with that of retro...

Hemangiomas are benign vascular tumors. They are the prerogative of the liver and skin. And genitourinary localizations are rare and have only been rarely reported in the prostat, bladder, ureter or the perineum. In the light of published cases, urethral hemangiomas are mostly found in males. Few cases of hemangioma in the female urethra were reported. We report a cavernous hemangioma of the ur...

Calculi in the urethra are an uncommon entity. Giant calculi in prostatic urethra are extremely rare. The decision about treatment strategy of calculi depends upon the size, shape, and position of the calculus and the status of the urethra. If the stone is large and immovable, it may be extracted via the perineal or the suprapubic approach. In most of the previous reported cases, giant calculi ...

BACKGROUND Retrograde ejaculation can have anatomical, neurogenic, or pharmacological causes. Among these factors, malformation of the prostatic urethra is an uncommon cause. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a 29-year-old Han Chinese man with absence of his verumontanum combined with ejaculatory duct cysts, and no other cause for ejaculatory dysfunction. His verumontanum was replaced by a deep g...

OBJECTIVES A randomised controlled trial was performed to compare the symptomatic effects on patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) treated by two therapeutic approaches - the Western medicine (WM) and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). METHODS Four primary outcome measures, namely the quality of life (QOL), maximum urine flow ratio (UFR), International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS...

OBJECTIVE To study the role of perineal sonography in the diagnosis of an ectopic ureteric opening into the urethra. METHODS In this study, carried out over about 4 years, perineal sonography was done to look for a ureter opening ectopically into the urethra in patients for whom abdominal sonography showed the ureter descending below and beyond the urinary bladder. RESULTS Perineal sonograp...

Urethral duplication is a rare congenital anomaly of the lower urinary system and has varied presentation. According to the Effmann classification, type IIA2-Y urethral duplication is characterized by the duplicated urethra originating from the bladder neck and opening into either the rectum or the perineum. The accessory urethra is normal and functional and the normally positioned dorsal ureth...

Figure 1: Enlarged phallus with accessory phallic urethra in female (46XX) Figure 2: Absent labia minora and normal vaginal and anal openings Figure 3 – Schematic diagram showing phallus with accessory phallic urethra A newborn presented on second day of life with enlarged phallus with urethral opening in it (Fig. 1), im-palpable external gonads, normal vaginal opening, and normal anus (Fig. 2)...

KIMURA, Y. Posterior Urethrogram as a Method to Study Ejaculation. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1972, 106 (1), 89-91 Erection and ejaculation were caused in male mongrel dogs by manual stimulation of the penis and the pressure changes in the posterior urethra during this stimulation were recorded. As a result, it was noted that the pressure changes in the posterior urethra from the onset of the stimula...

We describe our experience in using a new endoscopic technique for suspending the bladder neck and urethra in 16 patients with stress incontinence. The procedure was started by dissecting the retropubic space, first with a sound and then with a Foley catheter before passing an absorbable suture from the abdominal fascia to the bladder neck using an elbowed needle introduced into the bladder thr...