Abstract

Introduction. Recently, there has been a tendency to perform reconstructive-plastic interventions for the treatment of both primary and recurrent urethral strictures. Buccal urethroplasty is currently recognized as the «gold standard» for the urethral strictures treatment. However, despite a large number of works on operative correction of urethral strictures using the cheek mucosa, the issues of prevention and correction of intra- and postoperative complications of buccal urethroplasty have not been finally resolved. The purpose. Using the world literature, to stydy complications, methods of their prevention and correction for improving the efficiency of primary and repeated recοnstructive-plastic οperations on the urethra using free autograft of mucous membranes οth cheeks. Materials and methods. The literature review was made using bibliographic databases: Pubmed, Web of Sience, Science Direct, Scopus, Cyberleninka, eLibrary.ru and others for the period from 1990–2022. The following keywords were used: urethral stricture, buccal graft, complications of buccal urethroplasty, buccal urethroplasty, diagnosis of complications of buccal urethroplasty, treatment of complications of buccal urethroplasty, anastomotic urethroplasty, urethroplasty replacement. In total, 150 original publications were identified and analyzed, and 104 articles of them were selected for a literary review. Results. The analysis of complications of primary and repeated buccal urethroplasty was carried out, possible options for diagnosis and correction of complications of reconstructive plastic surgery on the urethra of men using the cheek mucosa were studied and the quality of life of patients after surgical treatment was analyzed. Conclusion. The analysis of the scientific literature on the results of the surgical treatment of primary and recurrent urethral strictures using buccal mucosa graft shows that at present there is no single clinical position that would clearly classify the emerging complications of this method of uretroplastics and contributed to the development of measures for their prevention.

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