Histologic Analysis of Female Urethral Strictures Following Dorsal On lay Buccal Mucosal Graft Urethroplasty

There is no literaturewith regard to the histopathology of female urethral stricture diseasecurrently. In a recent study by RamPathak et al of 9 patients who underwent urethroplasty, 67 % of the patients had stratified squamousepithelium overlying fibrosis, while 29% showed acute injury with prominentsquamous papillary hyperplasia. While many studies have looked into the pathophysiologyof Urethral Stricture Disease in males and suggested that chronic inflammationand Lichen’s Sclerosis are the most common findings, there is a huge paucity ofdata with regard to females. Here, we look to present the pathologicanalysis of female urethral stricture disease.