title: Non-transecting anastomotic bulbar urethroplasty: a preliminary report.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report our early experience with a novel approach to the excision and end-to-end anastomotic repair of bulbar urethral strictures.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 22 patients underwent excision and end-to-end anastomosis of a proximal bulbar urethral stricture using a technique in which the corpus spongiosum is not transected, so as to maintain its blood supply intact. The range of follow-up was 6-21 months and for 16 patients the follow up was ≥1 year.
  
  
  RESULTS
  At 1 year of follow-up there was no evidence of a recurrent stricture on symptomatic assessment or uroflowmetry in the 16 patients. On urethrography one patient has a urethral calibre 80% of normal. In the other 15 the calibre is normal or greater than normal.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The non-transecting anastomotic bulbar urethroplasty technique used appears to give results that are as good as those of traditional anastomotic urethroplasty with less surgical trauma.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Urology, London, UK. daniela.andrich@uclh.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Daniela E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Andrich
authors.forename: Anthony R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Mundy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014521:Urethra / Q000601:surgery*; D014525:Urethral Stricture / Q000601:surgery*; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D055815:Young Adult