One-stage urethroplasty for urethral stricture. Free full thickness skin graft versus cutaneous island flap urethroplasty.
50 patients with urethral strictures (35 bulbar, 40% iatrogenic) were treated by a one-stage skin inlay urethroplasty, using either a free full thickness patch (29 cases) or an island flap (21 cases), and followed up from 6 months to 3 years. Good results were achieved in 79% of the bulbar strictures irrespective of the type of the procedure. Penile and multioperated bulbar strictures are best treated using cutaneous island flap urethroplasty.
D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014521:Urethra / Q000601:surgery*; D014525:Urethral Stricture / Q000601:surgery*