Surgery for distal hypospadias: what about the catheter?

• Main Authors: Maria-Grazia Scarpa (Author), Giordano Perin (Author), Massimo Di Grazia (Author), Daniela Codrich (Author), Federica Pederiva (Author), Edoardo Guida (Author), Maria Antonietta Lembo (Author), Antonio Giannotta (Author), Jürgen Schleef (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: PAGEPress Publications, 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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No agreed recommendations exist for timing of urethral stent removal, after distal hypospadias surgery. We compared our preliminary case series with outcomes from literature: 18/44 patients were treated with catheter and 26/44 without it. The surgical outcome was comparable in the two groups. After...