epispadias/tunica

OBJECTIVE To report our preliminary institutional experience of incorporating a tunica vaginalis flap (TVF) as an adjunct into primary or secondary epispadias repair. METHODS A prospectively maintained institutionally approved database of exstrophy-epispadias complex patients was used to identify

BACKGROUND Primary epispadias is a rare congenital malformation that afflicts about 1 in 80,000 children. The surgical repair, originally described by Cantwell over 100 years ago, is fundamentally sound and incorporates several important steps to achieve an optimal result. METHODS A 9-month-old male

OBJECTIVE To investigate the application of tunica vaginalis flap in repairing the deformity of urethra and urethral fistulas. METHODS Tunica vaginalis flap from the scrotum were used to wrap the reconstructed urethra in the 38 cases of hypospadias urethroplasty and urethral fistulas repair from