Bilateral PCNL in a patient with ileal conduit
Background A 63-year-old male presented with bilateral flank pain. Diagnosis & Treatment On imaging, he was found to have bilateral multiple calculi and simple cysts. Challenges in the surgery were the retrograde access to pelvicalyceal...
Continue reading...Male urethral stricture – The disease is as old as humanity
Urethral stricture is the narrowing of the urethra that restricts urinary flow. The disease is as old as humanity itself. Ancient Indian and Egyptian medical texts describe dilators and catheters, which were used to treat the condition. Their treatment has...
Continue reading...Buccal epithelium Expanded and Encapsulated in Scaffold-Hybrid Approach to Urethral Stricture (BEES-HAUS) procedure
Introduction: The definitive treatment of urethral strictures involves reconstruction with additional tissue in the form of substitution urethroplasty or an end-to-end anastomotic urethroplasty. Buccal mucosal urethroplasty is an open surgical substitution...
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