[Urethral diseases in children at surgical departments of the Cotonou Hospital. Apropos of 77 cases].

Over a 6-year period in the surgical departments of Cotonou hospital, urethral diseases in children represented 20% of all infantile urological diseases and essentially consisted of urethral strictures (26 cases), hypospadias (22 cases), posterior urethral valves (12 cases), prolapsed urethral mucosa, the only disease observed in girls (9 cases). These diseases generally do not raise any diagnostic problems, but the real problem concerns follow-up of these children, who are usually lost to follow-up after discharge.