[The treatment of obliterations of the posterior urethra in men].

The paper presents the analysis of treatment results for 345 patients with posterior urethra obliteration treated in 1981-1996. Of the various methods used, endoscopic operations proved most effective and safe. Two-stage recanalization of the posterior urethra is more sparing than plastic surgery as it does not employ traumatic approach, is shorter, is accompanied but less blood loss, makes postoperative complications less frequent. A novel treatment (endoscopic recanalization of the urethra under transrectal control) is much less traumatic, makes complications rare. Open plastic operations on the urethra should be made only in cases when obliteration of the posterior urethra is combined with urinary fistulas and when femur bones deformation induces urethral deviation.