Posterior urethral complications of the treatment of prostate cancer
- 17 February 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in BJU International
- Vol. 110 (3), 304-325
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410x.2011.10864.x
Abstract
What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Urethral strictures, bladder neck and posterior urethral contractures, and urorectal fistulation are three well‐recognised complications of the treatment of prostate cancer, whether by surgery or non‐surgical treatment. Because these are relatively rare problems the treatment is uncertain. There is a heavy reliance on endoscopic or instrumental management of urethral strictures and of bladder neck and posterior urethral contractures, and there is little discrimination in any of these conditions between those that are the result of surgery and those that are the result of radiotherapy and other treatment methods using external energy sources. This review aims to clarify out current understanding of these three clinical problems and draws attention to the role of reconstructive surgery, particularly when dealing with bladder neck contractures, prostatic urethral stenoses and urorectal fistula. This also shows that the nature of the problem, the recovery time after treatment and the degree of functional recovery is radically different in the surgical as against the non‐surgical group, to a degree that the authors believe is not sufficiently stressed when patients are counselled and consented before their primary treatment.Keywords
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