Spinning Top Urethra and Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction in a Young Female

Spinning top urethra (STU) denotes a particular urethral configuration that is a dilated posterior urethra mainly seen in young girls or women. STU deformity arises secondary to detrusor instability, leading to a rise the intravesical pressure against a closed sphincter. We describe a case of spinni...

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Autores principales: Dogra, P.N., Ansari, M.S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2004
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5956500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15349536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2004.55
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description Spinning top urethra (STU) denotes a particular urethral configuration that is a dilated posterior urethra mainly seen in young girls or women. STU deformity arises secondary to detrusor instability, leading to a rise the intravesical pressure against a closed sphincter. We describe a case of spinning top urethra in a 30-year-old woman who presented with lower urinary tract symptoms and left flank pain.
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spelling pubmed-59565002018-06-03 Spinning Top Urethra and Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction in a Young Female Dogra, P.N. Ansari, M.S. ScientificWorldJournal Case Report Spinning top urethra (STU) denotes a particular urethral configuration that is a dilated posterior urethra mainly seen in young girls or women. STU deformity arises secondary to detrusor instability, leading to a rise the intravesical pressure against a closed sphincter. We describe a case of spinning top urethra in a 30-year-old woman who presented with lower urinary tract symptoms and left flank pain. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2004-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5956500/ /pubmed/15349536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2004.55 Text en Copyright © 2004 P. N. Dogra and M. S. Ansari. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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