Surgical treatment of concomitant urethral diverticulum and stress incontinence.
Urinary incontinence is frequently associated with a urethral diverticulum in female patients. Preoperative evaluation including a thorough history and physical examination, voiding cystourethrogram, urethroscopy, and urodynamic studies can diagnose both the urethral diverticulum and any concomitant bladder-urethral dysfunction. Preoperative recognition of stress urinary incontinence or patients at risk for this problem postoperatively permits effective treatment with concomitant transvaginal bladder neck suspension and urethral diverticulectomy.
Bass
J S
JS
Department of Urology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Leach
G E
GE
D004240:Diverticulum / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods; D014522:Urethral Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D014621:Vagina / Q000601:surgery