What's the difference between urethra and urethroplasty?
Urethra
Definition:
(n.) The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of them, who sustained a complete membranous disruption 5 weeks ago, transluminal puncture failed because of the movable proximal urethra.
(2) In 36 patients plastic reconstruction of the urinary bladder, sphincter and urethra was performed with local tissues after the Young technic in the G. A. Bairov modification.
(3) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
(4) The acrosin inhibitors are localized in the mucosa cells of the cauda epididymis, the vas deferens, the seminal vesicles, the urethra and distinct glandular units of the prostate.
(5) During unstable detrusor contractions, which even in these healthy women are observed during bladder filling and also during inhibited voidings through the urethra, the contraction is weaker.
(6) We concluded that this case was incidentally successful with good regeneration of urethral mucosa of the anterior urethra by grafting a polytetrafluoroethylene tube.
(7) All the examinees showed no organic changes in the prostate and urethra.
(8) The results are not simply explained by postulating electrically induced closure of the urethra.
(9) Spinning top urethra (STU) is a term used to describe a widened posterior urethra seen mainly in girls.
(10) The dysfunction is due partly to direct trauma of the bladder and urethra.
(11) The two halves of the glans are brought to the midline, thus covering the glanular urethra, and producing a normal appearing glans.
(12) The relaxation effects of prazosin and bunazosin on the distal urethra was weaker than on the proximal urethra.
(13) The majority were investigated at the bedside by taking films and cultures from the cervix and urethra.
(14) After rhizotomy, noradrenaline content in the proximal urethra was significantly increased but there was no change in sensitivity to sympathetic stimulation.
(15) Partial resection of anterior urethra including tumor was performed on December 20, 1983.
(16) This surgical procedure involves removing the penile urethra and creating a permanent stoma between the skin and pelvic urethra.
(17) In 20-35 per cent of short (up to 05 cm) urethral stenosis or cicatricial obliterations of urethra it was found advisable to start the treatment with nonoperative technique.
(18) The sphincter urethrae muscle is located inside the sling of the puborectalis muscle in both sexes, but no muscle fibres connect them to one another.
(19) The complication rate was astonishingly low during IUSC: being only 4.3% (2 male patients, one with stricture of the urethra and epididymitis, one with autonomous dysreflexia with bladder overdistension).
(20) The results appear to offer pharmacological evidence for the recently evolving intricate innervation pattern of the urethra including its distal portion, where the alpha-adrenergic system is believed to be important.
Urethroplasty
Definition:
(n.) An operation for the repair of an injury or a defect in the walls of the urethra.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct vision internal urethrotomy was performed in 33 cases with 18 very good or good results (54%), segmental resection was performed in 10 cases with 7 very good or good results, urethroplasty was performed in 4 cases with 2 good results and 2 urethral dilatations were performed with 2 good results.
(2) In the case of stricture secondary to an urethral guide, end-to-end urethrorraphy for a stricture less than or equal to 40 mm (12 cases) and 2 stage urethroplasty for a stricture greater than 40 mm (4 cases) achieved a good result in 68.8% of cases.
(3) Urethroplasty was carried out with pedicle skin of prepuce in 6 patients with the hypospadias since Feb 1987.
(4) Semen analysis was evaluated three months to four years after urethroplasty and serum hormone levels were measured in four patients.
(5) We recommend that transpubic urethroplasty be reserved for patients in whom urethral continuity cannot be re-established with relatively safe and simple endourological techniques.
(6) 7) After urethroplasty, two patients married and their wives became pregnant.
(7) Initially, there were significant difficulties with restenosis of either the proximal or distal st-ma following the first-stage urethroplasty.
(8) Experience with various 1 stage repairs for urethral strictures (patch graft, and excision and reanastomosis techniques) gained by ourselves and others is compared to reports on multistaged urethroplasties (Johanson, Leadbetter-Johanson and Turner-Warwick).
(9) The author reports his experience and the results of a series of 104 patients suffering from urethral strictures, operated by the same operator from September 1984 to March 1990 and treated by the same surgical method: one stage urethroplasty using a pedicled skin graft.
(10) streptomycin, PAS, INH with or without rifampicin; urinary diversion and drainage of pus (if any); initial stage I urethroplasty after control of infection and stage II urethroplasty after 18 - 20 months.
(11) Histologic review at various post-urethroplasty intervals showed epithelialization of the graft.
(12) Intralesional steroid may be used in many types of strictures but it is especially useful in those cases with strictures in the distal urethra or the meatus, those occurring after radical prostatectomy and in some cases when 1 or more urethroplasties have been done.
(13) All patients were treated before sphincter implantation with drugs, transurethral sphincterotomy in boys, and bladder flap urethroplasty was carried out in females during the surgical procedure.
(14) Fifteen children, aged between 2 and 9 years old, with hypospadias (4 penile; 6 penoscrotal; 3 scrotal; 1 perineal) were administered testosterone ointment before one-stage urethroplasty.
(15) Dartos-predicled scrotal skin island patch urethroplasties were performed in 72 patients and followed up for up to 7 years.
(16) The locally aggressive lesion was excised and urethroplasty accomplished.
(17) A one stage urethroplasty using a tubulated and reversed flap was carried out by the authors in 74 cases of hypospadias with chordee between 1978 and 1988.
(18) The Duckett transverse tube pedicle urethroplasty was used to repair the primary hypospadias of 190 boys over an 11-year period.
(19) Seven additional operations were done mainly for prepuce correction and closure of fistula after urethroplasty.
(20) The results with 34 cases of patch graft urethroplasties for urethral stricture disease were compared to the results in other series and found to be significantly worse.