USE OF A DIGESTIVE MUCOSAL GRAFT IN URETHROPLASTY - AN EXPERIMENTAL-STUDY - PROSPECTIVE UTILIZATION OF THE APPENDIX MUCOSA

Authors
LEBRET T GOBET F DALLASERRA M MITROFANOFF P
Citation
T. Lebret et al., USE OF A DIGESTIVE MUCOSAL GRAFT IN URETHROPLASTY - AN EXPERIMENTAL-STUDY - PROSPECTIVE UTILIZATION OF THE APPENDIX MUCOSA, European urology, 27(1), 1995, pp. 58-61
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Urology & Nephrology
Journal title
European urology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03022838
Volume
27
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
58 - 61
Database
ISI
SICI code
0302-2838(1995)27:1<58:UOADMG>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
Colic mucosa was used as a graft for urethral construction in 9 Spragu e-Dawley rats. A urethrectomy was performed in each rat and then a ure throplasty built with the colic mucosa taken from a segmental colectom y. After 6 weeks to 3 months, all of these rats developed a typical ur othelium. The digestive mucosa has been transformed into urothelium or acts as a stent to guide regrowth from each end. These results are en couraging, but the use of the appendix mucosa for hypospadias repair a nd for urethroplasty deserves further study.