Postprostatectomy urinary infection: cystourethrographic study.

Postoperative cystourethrography can be valuable in the diagnosis and management of urinary tract infection and other postprostatectomy complications. The authors have studied 50 patients and recommend voiding cystourethrography prior to endoscopic assessment of bladder outlet resistance. In addition, urinary infection may complicate a clear-cut obstructive lesion and present as a mixture of irritative and obstructive symptoms. The correlation between symptoms and the obstructive lesion is only 40 per cent. There is obviously a need for a more objective evaluation by means of cystourethrography.