Table 1.

Incidence of Urethral Stricture and Stenosis for BPH Treatment

Modality	Study	N	Mean or Median Follow-up (y)	Urethral Stricture (%)	Urethral and Bladder Neck Stenosis (%)
TURP
	Varkarakis J et al4	577	10	1.7	2.4
	Zwergel U et al5	446	NA	1.7	2.7
	Floratos DL et al16	155	6.5	3.2	4.8
	Michielsen and Coomans6	518	2.7	2.4
	Balbay MD et al7	103	NA	11.7
	Lee YH et al15	1135	3.2		9.7
OSP
	Varkarakis I et al27	232	3.5	0.6	3.3
	Helfand B et al28	56	3.3	5.3	5.3
	Serretta V et al29	1804	2		a	.8	4.
HoLEP
	Naspro R et al101	211	2	2.8	5.4
	Gilling PJ et al102	38	7.6	1.4	0
	Shah HN et al22	354	1	4.2	0.28
	Gupta N et al103	150	NA	2
	Kuo RL et al104	206	1.6	4.4	3.6
PVP
	Ruszat R et al105	500	2.6	4.4	3.6
	Te AE et al106	139	3	0.7	1.4
	Heinrich E et al107	140	NA	0	2.6
TUMT
	Floratos DL et al16	155	6.5	0	0
	Sall and Bruskewitz25	97	NA	13	0

^aIncludes both incidence of stricture and bladder neck stenosis.

BPH, benign prostatic hypertrophy; HoLEP, holmium enucleation of the prostate; NA, not available; OSP, open simple prostatectomy; PVP, photoselective vaporization of the prostate; TUMT, transurethral microwave thermotherapy; TURP, transurethral resection of prostate.