title: Construction of a neourethra in girls: follow-up results.
abstract: Female urethral injuries may cause serious morbidity with loss of the entire urethra in some cases. We review the results of construction of a neourethra by the flipped anterior bladder-tube technique in five girls aged 3-18 years (mean 8 years). All had pelvic fractures and had their initial management elsewhere; four were run over by motor vehicles and one suffered a pelvic gunshot injury. Three patients came with a suprapubic cystostomy, one was totally incontinent, and another had a urethrovaginal fistula. Three had an associated vaginal injury. All five patients underwent construction of a neourethra using a flipped anterior bladder-wall tube (FABWT) and have been followed for 18-80 months (mean 44 months). All patients were continent in the daytime and three passed urine spontaneously. Two were managed by clean intermittent catheterization (CIC), one per urethram and other via a continent abdominal stoma (Mitrofanoff). The FABWT technique should be considered as an option in the management of females with severe urethral injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Kardar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D010384:Pelvic Bones; D014521:Urethra / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery*