TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Treating male urethral stricture with the patient’s own buccal mucosal cells, encapsulated in a polymer scaffold as carrier, has been granted a patent in Japan. A longer ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A novel and relatively pain-less treatment method for male urethral stricture using patients own buccal mucosal cells has been reported as successful in four out of six ...

Urethroplasty is the gold standard for urethral stricture but is limited by technical complexity and surgeon expertise. Thus, urethrotomy and dilatation remain common despite high recurrence rates (40 ...

STRICTURES of the human urethra are of three types: inflammatory, traumatic and congenital. The basic histology 1 common to all strictures is a proliferation of fibroblasts in the tunica propria. This ...

Treating male urethral stricture with the patient’s own buccal mucosal cells, encapsulated in a polymer scaffold as carrier, has been granted a patent in Japan. A longer duration of relief to patients ...

Synchronous metastatic disease is characterized by the presence of metastatic lesions, in addition to the primary tumor, at diagnosis. Investigators in South Korea demonstrated the benefit in a ...

The patient, a Lucknow resident, had a three-centimetre-long bulbar urethral stricture, a narrowing of the urinary passage. Doctors on Monday claimed the cell-based technique could offer a minimally ...

The FDA has granted approval to Urotronic Inc. for its Optilume urethral drug-coated balloon (DCB) for the treatment of male urethral strictures. The device inhibits new scar tissue growth that may ...

I am 38 years old. I have recently been detected for a urinary problem which is the presence of a stricture in the urethra - bulbar region. The problem is about 1 year old. Presently I pass urine ...