Urethral stricture refers to the narrowing of the urethral lumen resulting from fibrosis that affects the urethral epithelium and underlying corpus spongiosum. It is most often heralded by obstructive ...

A stricture is a dense scar that occurs somewhere along the urethra. The urethra is the urinary channel that carries urine to the outside of the body. Strictures often cause symptoms such as poor ...

BALTIMORE, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Urological Association (AUA) released the 2023 clinical practice guideline amendment for the diagnosis and management of urethral ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - In today’s Healthy living Jatinder Kumar, M.D., a Urologist with USA Health University Urology, joined us to talk about symptoms, causes, and treatments of ‘Stricture Disease’.

Urethral strictures refer to the narrowing of the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine out of the body. This condition is typically caused by scarring, which can block or narrow the urethra, ...

Although straightforward male urethral stricture disease is commonly encountered in the scope of general urologic practice, complex urethral strictures are less common and require a more systematic ...

STRICTURES of the human urethra are of three types: inflammatory, traumatic and congenital. The basic histology 1 common to all strictures is a proliferation of fibroblasts in the tunica propria. This ...

Synchronous metastatic disease is characterized by the presence of metastatic lesions, in addition to the primary tumor, at diagnosis. Investigators in South Korea demonstrated the benefit in a ...

Treating male urethral stricture with the patient’s own buccal mucosal cells, encapsulated in a polymer scaffold as carrier, has been granted a patent in Japan. A longer duration of relief to patients ...

A team of surgeons in the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, led by Prof. Olayinka Shittu, has successfully performed an intricate procedure to reconstruct a urethral stricture in a ...

Bulbomembranous (BM) urethral strictures are the most common grade 2 or higher urinary toxicity following high dose rate brachytherapy (HDRB), according to Australian investigators. The findings, by ...