Table 1 Clinical characteristics of 83 patients with urethral stricture disease treated with buccal mucosa graft urethroplasty
Age years [median (range)] | 61 (16; 77) |
Follow-up months [median (range)] | 46 (36; 54) |
Location of the stricture patients (%) | |
Bulbar urethra | 69 (83.1) |
Penile urethra | 13 (15.7) |
Panurethral | 1 (1.2) |
Length of the stricture cm [median (range)] | 5 (1; 16) |
Procedure patients (%) | |
Single-stage | 75 (90.4) |
Two-stage | 8 (9.6) |
Previous surgical urethral interventions patients (%) | 63 (75.9) |
Number of direct visual internal urethrotomies | |
1 | 12 (14.5) |
2–5 | 38 (45.8) |
> 5 | 9 (10.8) |
Number of urethroplasties | |
1 | 14 (16.9) |
> 1 | 3 (3.6) |
Number of dilatations | |
≥ 1 | 40 (48.2) |