[Urethrorrhagia in boys]

Fourteen boys, aged 2 to 13, have been examined in the last six years for blood spotting from urethra between voidings, rarely associated with some degree of dysuria. No anomaly was seen on IVP, except in two cases which showed mild stenosis of the posterior urethra. Endoscopic evaluation was completely negative in 5 cases; moderate inflammation or hypervascularisation, some what a subjective aspect, was noticed in 4 cases; a definite "posterior urethritis" already described by others in the literature was demonstrated in 5 cases. The etiology of such a lesion remains unknown; no story of external or internal trauma was reported. Although these urethrorrhagia are of benign nature, we do not feel like others (1) that endoscopy should be considered as unnecessary, but on the contrary that it should help for correct evaluation and follow up of these patients, rather prone to be lost especially when no treatment has been prescribed.