title: Long-term results of treatment of urethral strictures by transpubic urethroplasty.
abstract: Intrapelvic ruptures of membraneous urethra connected with pelvis fractures lead, as a rule, to strictures. Relative inaccessibility of these strictures above diaphragma urogenitale and behind symphysis makes their surgical treatment difficult. Transpubic approach with removal of wedge of pubic bones enables a direct approach to stricture and its modification under sight control. Technique of transpubic approach is described and long-term results obtained in 10 patients being 29-54 months after operation are evaluated. In one patient urinary continence in a sense of stress incontinence was disturbed, in one patient impotence occurred and one patient had disturbed gait.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D011630:Pubic Bone / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D014521:Urethra / Q000601:surgery*; D014525:Urethral Stricture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*