The Surgical Repair of Membranous Urethral Strictures: Experience with 105 Consecutive Cases

Abstract

Patients (105) with rupture of the membranous urethra in whom impassable strictures developed were reviewed. With 16 yr being the division between children and adults there were 73 adults and 32 children. It is preferable to repair these strictures with the mobilized anterior urethra if this can be accomplished satisfactorily, rather than using skin substitution urethroplasties. The mobilized anterior urethra was used in 90 patients: 63 adults and 27 children. The anterior urethra in the remaining 15 patients had been damaged either by a previous operation or by previous disease and needed skin substitution urethroplasty. Techniques, complications and results in the 3 types of repair are presented.