Individual treatment strategy for single urethrocutaneous fistula after hypospadias repair: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urethrocutaneous fistula (UCF) remains the most common complication after hypospadias repair, and the recurrence rate of UCF is still high if the surgical techniques is not chosen properly, which called for better approaches to this problem. UCF presents different clinical characteristics due to their different locations and sizes, therefore we retrospectively analyzed the effects of different surgical techniques on single UCF after hypospadias repair in order to reduce the recurrence rates of UCF.

Methods

A total of 602 patients diagnosed with UCF after hypospadias repair from January 2014 to December 2021 were enrolled. Baseline clinical characteristics such as age of patients, UCF location, size, surgical techniques were recorded. Patients were followed up in t

SUBMITTER: Yang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9547158 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature