Abstract:The present paper of Alger and colls (1) is very interesting and shows a very important topic in reconstructive urology: The impact of obesity in urethroplasty outcumes. Urethral surgery has more technical difficult in patients with high body mass index (BMI) (2). There are very factors implied in postoperative success of urethral surgery (3-5) but the BMI is one of the most studied (6). In this elegant paper the authors reviewed 193 patients with anterior urethral strictures who had undergone anastomotic or a… Show more
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