Repair of Complicated Posterior Urethral Stricture Using Inferior Pubectomy and Gracilis Muscle Flap / 대한비뇨기과학회지

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: To evaluate the usefulness of an inferior pubectomy and a gracilis muscle flap for the reconstruction of a complicated posterior urethral stricture, where urethroplasty had failed, or due to a long urethral defect. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of sixty eight patients with complicated posterior urethral strictures, following a pelvic bone fracture, were managed by a one-stage perineal repair at Pundang CHA hospital between March 1998 and April 2002. End-to-end anastomosis was performed in all cases, with corporeal body separation, or an inferior pubectomy and transposition of the gracilis muscle flap performed in a progressive manner if required. RESULTS: The success rate of all the cases was 95.6%. Additional procedures made no differences to the incidence of impotence, and the incidences of restricture and incontinence were low. CONCLUSIONS: Our results shows that an inferior pubectomy and a gracilis muscle flap can be useful methods in the treatment and prevention of incontinence and restricture in most cases of complicated posterior urethral strictures.