A case of Patent Urachus / 대한비뇨기과학회지

The patent urachus is the failure of complete urachal lumen closure results in a free communication between the bladder and the umbilicus. The urachus remains patent and urine leaks from the umbilicus. A 53 day old female infant was admitted to Seoul Red Cross Hospital due to urine leakage accompanied by varing purulent discharge from the enlarged protruding umbilicus, measuring 2 Cm x 2 Cm x 2 Cm, since birth. The fistulogram showed a long fistulous tract communicate with bladder and umbilicus. After complete resection of the urachus and umbilicus with a bladder cuff, the patient had no urine leakage from umbilicus. We report a case of patent urachus with some literature.

A Clinical Effect of Ornade Spansule in Stress Incontinence / 대한비뇨기과학회지

There were 18 woman with mild to moderate stress incontinence treated with the Sympathomimetic agents, with were combined with phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride, chlorpheniramine maleate, and isopropamide. The majority of these patients achieved significant improvement for 2 months to 2 and half years after beginning therapy. These patients were performed physical examination, voiding cystourethrogram, stress test lateral-chain cystourethrogram, cystoscopy in order to confirm stress incontinence. We thinked that these conservative therapy were advisable for stress incontinence especially when symptoms were mild.

A Case of Penile Injury (Accidental Rupture of Corpus Cavernosum) / 대한비뇨기과학회지

One patient is described with severe injury to the penis sustained during sexual intercourse and reviewed the literature. The patient was 28 years old with chief complaints of painful swelling, hematoma, discoloration, detumescence of penis. This patient was performed physical examination, urinalysis, retrograde urethrogram, corpora carvernosogram in order to know location of ruptured corpus cavernosum and urethral injury. Under the diagnosis of rupture of corpus cavernosum, the authors were performed immediate exploration with suture closure of the defect. The postoperative was not occurred.