Female Acute Urinary Retention Caused by Urethral Diverticulum. |
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Young Joo Kim |
Department of Urology, Cheju National University, School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea. kurology@urology.or.kr |
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ABSTRACT |
We report two cases of acute urinary retention in women with urethral diverticulum. Cystoscopy were performed all patients. But diverticular opening was not found. All patients failed voiding by a bladder outlet obstruction. In one case, bladder outlet obstructive symptom resolved completely after the surgical removal of the diverticulum.
In another case, patient refused operation. |
Keywords:
Female urethral diverticulum; Acute urinary retention; Bladder outlet obstruction |
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