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A urethrotomy is an operation which involves incision of the urethra, especially for relief of a stricture. It is most often performed in the outpatient setting, with the patient (usually) being discharged from the hospital or surgery center within six hours from the procedure's inception.
Comparing the two surgical procedures, a UK trial found that both urethrotomy and urethroplasty are effective in treating urethral narrowing in the bulbar region. At the same time the more invasive urethroplasty had longer-lasting benefit and was associated with fewer re-interventions.
Should a Visual Internal Urethrotomy be chosen to alleviate a discovered stricture, IV sedation and an (infiltrative) injection of lidocaine or other local anesthesia into the stricture will usually suffice for cutting the pie-wedge oriented dissections into the stricture with the urethrotome.
In turtle and tortoises, cystoscopy has additional value as it permits the visualisation of internal organs due to the thin urinary bladder wall. [12] In young individuals in which sex determination would not be feasible by visualisation of external morphologic features, this technique permits noninvasive visualisation of gonads, and therefore ...
Urethrotomy; List of surgeries by type; References 1. This page was last edited on 14 May 2024, at 11:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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