The abdominal neourethra in children: technique and long-term results.
The abdominal neourethra is a continent bladder tube that is applicable to selected children with anatomical urinary incontinence or urinary retention and a nonnavigable urethra. A 5 to 8-year followup is presented in 6 children in whom the abdominal neourethra afforded normal micturition through it or permitted intermittent catheterization. All children were dry between bladder emptyings as a result of a continence mechanism that combined a long elastic tube and a cephalad neourethral abdominal opening with a rectus striated muscle sphincter.
D000005:Abdomen; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014521:Urethra / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000601:surgery; D014546:Urinary Catheterization; D014547:Urinary Diversion / Q000379:methods*; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery*