TY - JOUR T1 - Surgery for distal hypospadias: what about the catheter? JF - Pediatr Med Chir Y1 - 2017 A1 - Scarpa, Maria-Grazia A1 - Perin, Giordano A1 - Di Grazia, Massimo A1 - Codrich, Daniela A1 - Pederiva, Federica A1 - Guida, Edoardo A1 - Lembo, Maria Antonietta A1 - Giannotta, Antonio A1 - Schleef, Jurgen KW - Child KW - Child, Preschool KW - Device Removal KW - Humans KW - Hypospadias KW - Infant KW - Length of Stay KW - Male KW - Retrospective Studies KW - Stents KW - Treatment Outcome KW - Urinary Catheterization AB -

No agreed recommendations exist for timing of urethral stent removal, after distal hypospadias surgery. We compared our preliminary case series with outcomes from literature: 18/44 patients were treated with catheter and 26/44 without it. The surgical outcome was comparable in the two groups. After hypospadias surgery, the main advantage of the immediate postoperative catheter removal was the shorter hospital stay without negatively affecting the care and home management.

VL - 39 IS - 3 U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29034655?dopt=Abstract ER -