{
    "abstract": "Female urethral injuries may cause serious morbidity with loss of the entire urethra in some cases. We review the results of construction of a neourethra by the flipped anterior bladder-tube technique in five girls aged 3-18 years (mean 8 years). All had pelvic fractures and had their initial management elsewhere; four were run over by motor vehicles and one suffered a pelvic gunshot injury. Three patients came with a suprapubic cystostomy, one was totally incontinent, and another had a urethrovaginal fistula. Three had an associated vaginal injury. All five patients underwent construction of a neourethra using a flipped anterior bladder-wall tube (FABWT) and have been followed for 18-80 months (mean 44 months). All patients were continent in the daytime and three passed urine spontaneously. Two were managed by clean intermittent catheterization (CIC), one per urethram and other via a continent abdominal stoma (Mitrofanoff). The FABWT technique should be considered as an option in the management of females with severe urethral injury.",
    "authors": [
        {
            "affiliation": "Department of Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.",
            "firstname": "S",
            "initials": "S",
            "lastname": "Ahmed"
        },
        {
            "affiliation": null,
            "firstname": "A H",
            "initials": "AH",
            "lastname": "Kardar"
        }
    ],
    "conclusions": null,
    "copyrights": null,
    "doi": "10.1007/s003830000434",
    "journal": "Pediatric surgery international",
    "keywords": [],
    "methods": null,
    "publication_date": "2001-01-10",
    "pubmed_id": "11149400",
    "results": null,
    "title": "Construction of a neourethra in girls: follow-up results.",
    "xml": "<Element 'PubmedArticle' at 0x7885041ec270>"
}