URINARY FLOW-RATES IN HYPOSPADIAS

Uroflowmetry has been performed on 140 occasions in 90 patients with h ypospadias before and after reconstructive surgery. Children with hypo spadias tend to have a lower maximum urinary flow rate for volume void ed than the general population, lying around the population 5th centil e. This is observed before any surgery is performed, and appears from our cross-sectional data to be unaffected by surgery. Uroflowmetry has proved a useful and economical means of gaining an objective assessme nt of urinary function in this group of patients. Further longitudinal studies to confirm this cross-sectional study would be useful.