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The urethra is a vascular tube that conveys urine out from the bladder. A thorough understanding of basic anatomy and physiological function of the male and female urethra is essential to understand the impact of urethral disorders and their treatment. In this chapter we discuss the clinical anatomy of the male and female urethra as well as urethral disorders commonly encountered in urological practice.

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  1. Department of Urology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

    Tricia L. C. Kuo MBBS, MRCS, MMed, FAMS

  2. Department of Urology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK

    Nadir Osman MBChB (Hons), MRCS & Christopher R. Chapple BSc, MD, FRCS (Urol), FEBU, DHC

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  1. Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    John Heesakkers

  2. Urology Research Department, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Tr, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Christopher Chapple

  3. University Hospitals KU Leuven, Edegem, Belgium

    Dirk De Ridder

  4. Sohag University Hospital, Sohag, Egypt

    Fawzy Farag

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Kuo, T.L.C., Osman, N., Chapple, C.R. (2016). Urethral Disorders. In: Heesakkers, J., Chapple, C., De Ridder, D., Farag, F. (eds) Practical Functional Urology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25430-2_10

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