Current management of membranous urethral strictures due to radiation
- Radiotherapy is a frequently used treatment for prostate cancer. It does not only causes the intended damage to cancer cells, but also affects healthy surrounding tissue. As a result radiation-induced urethral strictures occur in 2.2% of prostate cancer patients. Management of urethral strictures is challenging due to the presence of poor vascularized tissue for reconstruction and the proximity of the sphincter, which can impair the functional outcome. This review provides a literature overview of risk factors, diagnostics and management of radiation-induced urethral strictures.
Download full text files
Additional Services
| Author: | Marjan Waterloos, Francisco Martins, Wesley Verla, Luis KluthORCiDGND, Nicolaas Lumen |
|---|---|
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-610459 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2021.635060 |
| ISSN: | 2296-875X |
| Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in Surgery |
| Publisher: | Frontiers Media |
| Place of publication: | Lausanne |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/03/04 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/03/04 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | Trauma Reconstructive Urology Working Party of the European Association of Young Academic Urologists |
| Release Date: | 2021/05/31 |
| Tag: | membranous urethral stricture; radiation-induced; radiotherapy; urethal stricture; urethroplasty |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | art. 635060 |
| Page Number: | 6 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 6 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 480801630 |
| Institutes: | Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Medizin |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
