Urethral injury: experimental study

The present experiment was designed to study several challenging therapeutic questions that remain disputable or unanswered: (1) Whether urethral healing post-trauma is influenced by the use of an indwelling urethral stent as an adjunct to suprapubic diversion; (2) the incidence of urethral stricture formation after immediate or delayed urethral repair; (3) the incidence of urethral stricutre formation after partial or complete urethral disruption; and (4) further assessment of radiographic findings in urethral injury. Herein is described the final conclusions we found to be relevant to this experiment.