Table 3.

Results of optical urethrotomy in posterior urethral ruptures [20], [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58].

Clinical series	No. of patients	Follow-up, months (range)	Repeated urethrotomy, n (%)	Erectile dysfunction, n (%)
Gupta and Gill 1986	10	15.1 (6–24)	10 (100)	0
Chiou et al., 1988	8	43 (12–79)	7 (88)	0
Marshall 1989	10	NA	10 (100)	0
Barry 1989	12	22 (1.5–85)	6 (50)	0
DeVries and Anderson 1990	4	<4	1 (25)	0
Leonard et al., 1990	3	31 (13–51)	1 (33)	0
Kernohan et al., 1991	7	35 (21–84)	7 (100)	0
Yasuda et al., 1991	17	44 (12–96)	7 (41)	0
Quint &Stanisic 1993	10	43 (7–108)	6 (60)	0
El-Abd 1995	284	NA	272 (96)	0
Goel et al., 1997	13	17.7 (11–24)	10 (77)	NA
Levine and Wessells 2001	6	60	6 (100)	NA
Dogra and Nabi 2002a	61	30 (9–44)	11 (18)	NA
total	445		354 (80)

NA: Not available.

^aLaser urethrotomy.