Congenital obliteration of the urethra
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Congenital obliteration of the urethra occurs in boys, very rarely and always combined with other diseases and anomalies, often incompatible with life. With obliteration of the urethra, urine is sometimes secreted from the uninfected urinary duct or through a congenital vesicoureteral or vesicovaginal fistula.
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Treatment of the congenital urethral obliteration
It is treated with congenital obliteration of the urethra by means of cystostomy, and with small obliteration zones - its excision and stitching of the areas of the urethra after their mobilization.