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ReviewBMJ case reports2021

Flaps in adult urethrocutaneous fistula repair: a report of two cases with the review of literature.

Sri Harsha Bokka, Sreerag Kodakkattil Sreenivasan, Ketan Mehra, Friji Meethale Thiruvoth

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Review in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sri Harsha BokkaUrology and Renal Transplantation, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India.
Sreerag Kodakkattil SreenivasanUrology and Renal Transplantation, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India sreeragks@yahoo.com.
Ketan MehraUrology and Renal Transplantation, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5583-5713
Friji Meethale ThiruvothPlastic Surgery, JIPMER, Puducherry, India.
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Urethrocutaneous fistula (UCF) poses a challenge to the reconstructive urologist in terms of its location, patient's expectations, availability of tissues for interposition, wound infection and chances of recurrence. Also, patient-related factors, such as uncontrolled diabetes, local surgery with extensive tissue loss, prior history of radiation, poor nutritional status and presence of any distal obstruction in the urethra severely affect the outcomes of a good repair with vascularised flap. We report two cases of UCF repair in adults using scrotal and gracilis muscle flaps (GMFs), their anatomic basis, technicality and advantages. The scrotal flap was used in the first case where it was freely available and GMF in second case where the patient had already undergone extensive local tissue debridement for Fournier's gangrene and hence, we had to look for a distant flap for protection of the UCF repair. Both patients had an uneventful recovery, there were no early or late treatment-related complications and follow-up after the third and sixth month of surgery revealed no recurrence and the patients are voiding well.

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Fournier GangrenePlastic Surgery ProceduresAdultHumansMaleScrotumSurgical FlapsUrethraplastic and reconstructive surgeryurology

Identifiers

PMID33875497
PMCPMC8057577
OpenAlexW3155223306

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