Reconstructive surgery for urethral stricture disease seeks to re-establish long-lasting urethral patency while minimizing associated adverse effects. In recent years, genitourinary reconstructive surgeons have developed and refined a number of techniques that seek to decrease the impact of urethroplasty on local tissues including blood supply and innervation. This review presents an outline of recent advances in urethral reconstructive techniques that seek to minimize surgical impact, including tissue preservation, tissue engineering, and minimally invasive approaches and reviews the current state of the literature related to these techniques.
Current urology reports. 2017 Jul [Epub]
Robert Caleb Kovell, Alexander J Skokan
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania Health System, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, 3rd Floor - West Pavilion, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. ., Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania Health System, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, 3rd Floor - West Pavilion, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.