A 56-year-old male with complete paraplegia at T-4 underwent visual internal urethrotomy of bulbous urethral stricture with a cold knife at 12 o'clock position. There was brisk arterial bleeding.

Guidelines for male urethral stricture The guidelines provide a clinical framework for the diagnosis and treatment of male urethral stricture. A clinical framework to guide providers in the diagnosis ...

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, ...

The urethra is the thin tube that carries urine from the urinary bladder out of the body. A urethral stricture is when narrowing from scar tissue occurs in the urethra. Urethral strictures can ...

The male urethra connects the urinary bladder to the penis. Once the bladder becomes full, urine flows through the urethra and leaves the body at the urethral meatus, which is located at tip of the ...

A fistula is an abnormal hole in the bowel or the bladder. A recto-urethral fistula is a hole between the urethra (urinary channel) and the rectum. This hole leads to leakage of urine into the rectum ...

Radiation therapy is an essential treatment for prostate cancers. Complications from radiation are very rare, but occasionally men can develop a urethral stricture after radiation treatment. The ...