Introduction to the 12th Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS)-Masterclass special issue

• 来源期刊: 亚洲男性学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（2）
• 页码范围: 123
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.4103/aja.aja_147_19

摘要

In this special issue of the Asian Journal of Andrology,speakers of the 12th Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS)-Masterclass in London have written up the topic of their lecture for deeper insights and understanding and to allow a wider audience to participate in the debates. In urethral stricture surgery,a wide range of surgical techniques have been developed to address varying degrees of scarring within the urethra.Diverse etiologies cause urethral stricture formation ranging from failed childhood hypospadias surgery to traumatic obliteration of an entire urethral segment;yet,the exact mechanisms underpinning the pathogenesis of the most common "idiopathic"bulbar stricture are incompletely understood.