Abstract: Background: Urethroplasty is the `gold standard' for treatment of urethral stricture infection; substitution urethroplasty is utilized as a part of long, perplexing, intermittent urethral strictures.
Objectives: aim of this study is to discuss the roles and different surgical approaches that are used in substitution urethroplasty and also to demonstrate the most complications of this procedure according to evidence based trails.
Methodology: A systematic review study of the literature was performed using Medline, Embase, the Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library were conducted databases through July 2016 using the search terms, `substitutional urethroplasty', `urethral obstruction', `urethral stricture', `sexual function', `erection' .
Conclusion: the results of the ventral and dorsal onlay of BM for bulbar urethroplasty are equivalent. Two-stage procedures are preferable in the penile urethra, except under certain circumstances when a one-stage dorsal onlay is feasible.
Keywords: Urethroplasty.
Title: Roles & Complications of Substitution Urethroplasty: Systematic review
Author: Abdulaziz Abdulrahman Almujaydil, Abdulmonem Bukhaytan Alharbi
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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