[Meatus stenosis of girls--clinical demonstration and therapy (author's transl)]

This report concerns meatotomies performed on 50 girls, aged 2--13 years, suffering from meatus stenosis. The symptomatic and diagnostic procedures are described. Miction difficulties, pollakiuria, and imperative micturition connected with chronic-recurrent cystides are emphasized. Calibration of the urethra is the decisive diagnostic procedure. The miction cystourethogram, however, provides only a hint as to the presence of a meatus stenosis with the pathological description of the urethra in the form of a prestenotic dilation and of an 'onion' or 'wineglass' shaped configuration. The therapeutic results are considered very good, because 48 of the 50 girls had neither subjective complaints nor urinary infections 1--2 years after the meatotomy. This represents a recovery rate of 96%.