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Nonneoplastic and Neoplastic Urethral Disease

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The urethra, which carries urine from the urinary bladder to the external urethral orifice for excretion and provides the conduit for semen in males, may be involved by a broad spectrum of both neoplastic and nonneoplastic diseases, which may produce very similar clinical symptoms. This chapter reviews the clinical and pathologic features of urethral diseases organized by clinical setting: urethral stricture, male urethral cancer, female urethral cancer, and female urethral diverticulum.

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    Hadley Wood

  2. Center for Genitourinary Reconstruction, Cleveland Clinic, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA

    Kenneth Angermeier

  3. Department of Pathology and Urology, Emory School of Medicine, 1364 Clifton Road NE, Room H-174, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA

    Adeboye O. Osunkoya

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Wood, H., Angermeier, K., Osunkoya, A.O. (2012). Nonneoplastic and Neoplastic Urethral Disease. In: Hansel, D., McKenney, J., Stephenson, A., Chang, S. (eds) The Urinary Tract. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5320-8_13

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