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Congenital urethral obliteration
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Last reviewed: 07.07.2025
Congenital obliteration of the urethra occurs in boys, is extremely rare and is always combined with other diseases and anomalies, often incompatible with life. With obliteration of the urethra, urine is sometimes released from an unclosed urinary duct or through a congenital vesicorectal or vesico-vaginal fistula.
[ Diagnostics congenital urethral obliteration.
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Treatment congenital urethral obliteration.
Congenital obliteration of the urethra is treated by performing a cystostomy, and in the case of small areas of obliteration, by excision and suturing of sections of the urethra after their mobilization.