One-stage circumferential buccal mucosa graft urethroplasty for bulbous stricture repair Urology 2003; 61: 452-455. A one-stage onlay urethroplasty, using a buccal mucosa graft, is presented for patients with bulbous strictures in whom the urethral mucosa is seriously involved in the disease. Of 40 patients who underwent a dorsal buccal mucosa graft urethroplasty for bulbous […]
CENTER FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE URETHRAL SURGERY
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Penile urethroplasty: thecniques and outcomes using buccal mucosa grafts Contemporary Urology 2006; 18: 25-33. Penile urethroplasty may represents a simple problem in patients with urethral stricture in which the penis is normal, but may represents a difficult challenge in patients with urethral stricture associated with failed hypospadias repair or Lichen sclerosus (LS), in which […]
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Harvesting buccal mucosal grafts Contemporary Urology 2006; 18: 17-24. An interesting and documented historical overview on the application of oral mucosa as surgical substitute material was reported in 1998 by Filipas et al. to give a link to other domains where the applications for urology have been developed. In 1993, El-Kasaby et al. reported […]
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Oral mucosa harvest: an overview of anatomic and biologic considerations EAU-EBU UPDATE SERIES 2007; 5:179-187. Objectives: The authors review the biologic characteristics of the oral mucosa. In addition, the authors report a contemporary harvesting technique of the oral mucosa for urethral transplantation, using biologically sound principles, modified by current literature. Methods: We reviewed pertinent […]