Radiation therapy is an essential treatment for prostate cancers. Complications from radiation are very rare, but occasionally men can develop a urethral stricture after radiation treatment. The ...

The Optilume device includes a balloon coated with paclitaxel. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Optilume ® Urethral Drug Coated Balloon (DCB) to treat patients with obstructive ...

Urethral stricture is scarring in the urethra, the tube that moves urine out of your body. The scarring blocks or narrows your urethra and makes it difficult to urinate. It can cause pain. If left ...

Edogawa Hospital plans urethral reconstruction center, setting up Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) for Cancer treatment. TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Urethral stricture, blocking the passage of urine ...

The committee noted that the clinical evidence showed Optilume to be effective in improving clinically relevant outcomes including anatomical success, peak flow rate and international prostate symptom ...

The use of gutta percha bougies is not new; it is attributed to a physician at Singapore; but I have neither seen nor heard any allusion to their being employed to take impressions of strictures, ...

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