The annals of emergency medicine provide numerous accounts of patients who have sought treatment for the removal of sizeable foreign objects from the rectum or urethra, items which sometimes ended up ...

Urethral prolapse, also known as urethrocele, is a very rare condition most often found in prepubescent girls. The likelihood of this condition happening is about 1 out of every 5,000 girls. Urethral ...

Urethral stricture is scarring in the urethra, the tube that moves urine out of your body. The scarring blocks or narrows your urethra and makes it difficult to urinate. It can cause pain. If left ...

In a recent study published in Cell Reports Medicine journal, researchers in the United States (US) used a shotgun metagenomic approach to characterize urethral microbiomes of specimens from healthy ...

A 26-year-old man presented to clinic with a 3-day history of worsening dysuria and decreased urinary output; he had no additional systemic symptoms. He reluctantly disclosed that on the evening ...

A 22-year-old man made the world wince after revealing that a 3-inch pair of tweezers was lodged in his urethra for four years. The man, who has chosen to go unnamed, visited a clinic in Saudi Arabia ...