Treatment Trends for Anterior Urethral Stricture: An International Survey on Eligibility for Staged Urethroplasty

Key Points

• Two-stage surgery is often chosen for complex anterior urethral stricture cases, with a focus on previous surgical history.
• Survey results indicate that the second stage of urethroplasty is mostly performed within 6 months of the first stage.
• Urologists reported varying criteria for selecting patients for different surgical interventions in urethral stricture repair.
• Highlighting the necessity for better tools to measure patient symptoms in urological treatment protocols.

Abstract