Reza Shahsavari¹, Seyed Morteza Bagheri^2*, Hamed Iraji¹

¹Resident of Radiology, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; ²Department of Radiology, Hasheminejad Kidney Center (HKC), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

BACKGROUND: In spite of the advanced imaging methods, MRI and CT-Scan, the role of ultrasonography is still unique in some fields of genitourinary tract diseases.

AIM: This study was aimed at assessing this role in the evaluation of male urinary stricture, and comparison with standard retrograde urethrography (SUG).

METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study. The patients include those who were suspected of anterior urethral stricture and were introduced assessed with imaging techniques (RUG). The patient underwent ultrasonography too. The results of both methods were compared. RUG was considered as the gold standard for this comparison.

RESULT: Ninety-seven patients were studied. The mean age was 46.9 ± 11.7 years (range 21-88 years), in RUG, 22 patients (22.8%) and SUG 23 patients (23.7%) had a stricture, 3 cases with a stricture in RUG had not evidenced of stenosis in SUG. The mean length of urethral stricture in RUG was 12.9 ± 8.1 mm and in SUG was 8.1 ± 7.3 mm. The estimated length in RUG way was significantly higher than SUG way(P=0.025).The sensitivity and specificity in using of SUG were 86.6% and 94.6%, respectively.

CONCLUSION: The result of this study showed stricture length measured by ultrasound is shorter than the length measured by RUG and the sensitivity and specificity in using of SUG was 86.6% and 94.6% respectively that due to the advantages it is an acceptable way.

Citation: Shahsavari R, Bagheri SM, Iraji H. Comparison of Diagnostic Value of Sonourethrography with Retrograde Urethrography in Diagnosis of Anterior Urethral Stricture. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2017.073
Keywords: Retrograde urethrography; Sonourethrography; Anterior urethral stricture.
*Correspondence: Seyed Morteza Bagheri, Department of Radiology, Hasheminejad Kidney Center (HKC), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Tel: +98912115 0807. E-mail: smb_53@yahoo.com
Received: 12-Mar-2017; Revised: 22-Mar-2017; Accepted: 04-Apr-2017; Online first: 11-Jun-2017
Copyright: © 2017 Reza Shahsavari, Seyed Morteza Bagheri, Hamed Iraji. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Funding: This paper was an extract of Radiology PhD dissertation titled “Comparison of Diagnostic value of sonourethrography with retrograde urethrography in diagnosis of anterior urethral stricture among the patients resorting to Hasheminejad Hospital in 2012” presented in 2013 with the kind supports of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Competing Interests: Publication of this paper has been supported by Roche Macedonia DOOEL Skopje.
 

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