Abstract
The authors have put together a well-done retrospective review of men undergoing a bulbar urethroplasty over a 16-year time period. 1 Granieri M.A Webster G.D Peterson A.C. A critical evaluation of the utility of imaging after urethroplasty for bulbar urethral stricture disease. Urology. 2016; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2015.12.086 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (12) Google Scholar After analysis of their single-institution review, they concluded that increasing the urethral catheter drainage time by an additional week (3 weeks in total) decreased urinary extravasation rate in the excision and primary anastomosis (EPA) group (5% to < 1%). In a trade-off for the additional urethral catheter time, they are suggesting eliminating the use of pericatheter retrograde urethrogram prior to catheter removal in patients undergoing EPA.
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