Abstract

Summarized the experience of surgical treatment of 21 patients with extensive urethral stricture caused by sclerotic lichen. The average age of the patients was 38.5 years and ranged from 18 to 54 years. The length of urethral strictures in the observed patients was from 3.5 to 18.0 cm, and an average of 6,5 ± 1,5 cm. All patients underwent the replacement urethroplasty by buccal mucosa graft. Mean operative time was 110 minutes. There wasn't intraoperative complications of urethra and the mouth. The healing occurred by first intention in all patients. The results showed that the reconstructive surgery by buccal mucosal graft is an effective method of surgical treatment of long urethral strictures caused by sclerotic lichen.

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