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Congenital obliteration of the urethra

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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024

Congenital obliteration of the urethra occurs in boys, very rarely and always combined with other diseases and anomalies, often incompatible with life. With obliteration of the urethra, urine is sometimes secreted from the uninfected urinary duct or through a congenital vesicoureteral or vesicovaginal fistula.

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Diagnostics of the congenital urethral obliteration

The diagnosis of "congenital obliteration of the urethra" is usually established on the basis of the absence of an independent urination in a newborn in the first two days. The correctness of the diagnosis is confirmed by the impossibility of catheterization of the bladder.

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Treatment of the congenital urethral obliteration

It is treated with congenital obliteration of the urethra by means of cystostomy, and with small obliteration zones - its excision and stitching of the areas of the urethra after their mobilization.


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