[Double-balloon urethrography in the female]

76 women with pains in the lower efferent urinary tract were urethrographically examined by the double balloon method according to Davis and Cian. The morphological changes registered were correlated with anamnestic, clinical and urodynamic findings and the following indications were derived for this X-ray examination of the female urethra: differential diagnosis between suburethral tumour and urethral diverticulum, recidive infections of the urinary tract, urethral syndrome, uromanometrically proved functional disturbances in the region of the bladder and urethra, painful catheterism and suspicion of urethrovaginal fistula.