We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
La estenosis de uretra postraumática en el hombre.
- Authors
Serrano-Brambila, Eduardo Alonso; Moreno-Alcázar, Othón Martino; Neri-Páez, Edgar; Sánchez-Martínez, Luis Carlos; Hernández-Ordóñez, Octavio Francisco; Morales-Morales, Arturo; Basavilvazo-Rodríguez, Ma. Antonia; Torres-Arreola, Laura del Pilar; Valenzuela-Flores, Adriana Abigail; Hernández-Valencia, Marcelino
- Abstract
The incidence of urethral stenosis in Mexico had not been documented. At the Centro Médico Nacional La Raza, along the year 2010, 629 patients with urethral stenosis were attended as out patient consultation: 85 % with previous urethral stenosis and 15 % with urethral treatment complication. Urethral stenosis is a chronic illness, with multiple etiological origin and the handling is controversial. It has a great negative impact for the patients and the recurrence reach 85 %. The treatment consisted over invasive approach (urethral dilations, endoscopy procedure) and open surgery (urethroplasty). The World Health Organization and World Alliance take the world challenge about the urinary tract infections associated to the attention of patients, focused on urethral stenosis. The objective of the following clinical guide is to offer to the professional of the health a clinical tool for taking decisions in the handling of the hardship or masculine urethral stenosis, based on the best available evidence, carrying out in systematized form with bibliographical research using validated terms of the MeSh: urethral structures, in the databases Trip database, PubMed, Guideline Clearinghouse, Cochrane Library and Ovid.
- Subjects
URETHRA; STENOSIS; GUIDELINES; CLINICAL medicine; ETIOLOGY of diseases; URETHROPLASTY; MEDICAL databases; WORLD Health Organization; WOUNDS &; injuries
- Publication
Revista Medica del IMSS, 2013, Vol 51, Issue 4, p472
- ISSN
0443-5117
- Publication type
Article