title: Evaluating efficacy of various operative procedures done in anterior urethral stricture using urethral stricture score.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Scoring systems have been an important tool of clinical decision making in medicine. As scoring systems like Glasgow Coma scale have made a revolutionary change in stratifying the patient, in particular, clinical scenario. Wiegand et al. in 2012 proposed UREThRAL Score a novel method to quantify anterior urethral stricture.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim was to validate urethral stricture score (USS) for evaluating the efficacy of operative procedures.
  
  
  METHODS
  Study was done in a retrospective manner and includes patients operated for anterior urethral stricture by a single surgeon in tertiary care center over the period of 2008-2014.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 57 cases were included in this study who met the inclusion criteria, of these cases 7 underwent excision and primary anastomosis (EPA), 20 underwent preputial flap urethroplasty (PFUP), 22 underwent tunica albuginea urethroplasty (TAU), and rest 8 underwent scrotal flap urethroplasty (SFUP). Procedures were assigned different complexity level, and USS was compared with the particular procedure to see the relation between both.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were analyzed using ANOVA on SPSS software.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean USS for EPA, PFUP, TAU, and SFUP in our study group was found to be 6.57, 8.95, 9.00, and 10.00, respectively, with an overall USS of 9.03, with a standard deviation of 1.56. USS was significantly associated with complexity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Mean USS increased with increase in surgical complexity indicating that higher USS correlates with more complex surgery. Strongest association between complexity and the individual parameter was found with location and length.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, MGM Medical College and MY Group of Hospitals, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Rajkumar
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mathur
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, MGM Medical College and MY Group of Hospitals, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Lukesh A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Patil
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, MGM Medical College and MY Group of Hospitals, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Fareed
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Khan
keywords: Anterior urethral stricture; urethral stricture score; urethroplasty
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