title: Childhood urethral injuries: perspectives on outcome and treatment.
abstract: To elucidate the history of childhood urethral injuries, we undertook a retrospective review of 19 male patients comprising 2 groups: those requiring surgical intervention in adulthood and those with complete disruption of the posterior urethra requiring acute intervention (cystostomy drainage). Group 1 patients (n = 12) ranged in age from 17 to 63 years, had sustained urethral injury between the ages of 3 to 15 years and underwent initial surgery from 9 to 18 years after injury. In all 12 patients the strictures developed in the bulbar urethra. All now report continence and normal voiding and none is impotent. Group 2 patients (n = 7) ranged in age from 4 to 16 years and underwent delayed primary reconstruction of the urethral rupture defect. Six patients are now continent with a good stream but the seventh has required repeat optical urethrotomy. One patient with erectile capability at the time of injury was rendered impotent and remains so.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Baskin
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: McAninch
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004630:Emergencies; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014521:Urethra / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D014525:Urethral Stricture / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery