EDITORIAL COMMENT

Abstract

The authors present a well-illustrated series of patients treated with a novel addition to the growing body of “non-transecting” bulbar urethroplasty techniques. The series is small but shows promise given the favorable anatomical and functional outcomes observed in all patients 1 year after reconstruction. The premise of the technique is that when approached ventrally, diseased urethra and corpus spongiosum (CS) can be excised while sparing unaffected CS and without the need for circumferential CS mobilization (and therefore violation) of the dorsal attachments between the CS and the corporal bodies.