[Value of the Goebbel-Stoeckel operation in the treatment of neurogenic bladder in girls].

Repeated catheterisation and drugs with a pharmacodynamic action are not always able to ensure perfect continence in children with meningomyeloceles. To treat uncontrollable incontinence, the authors propose an aponeurotic suspension of the bladder neck as described by Goebbel-Stoeckel in order to increase the peripheral resistance. At the same time, sufficient bladder compliance can also be obtained either by means of pharmacodynamic treatment or by enlargement enterocystoplasty. The aim is to obtain catheterisation every 4 to 6 hours without any incontinence. Young girls constitute the ideal indication for this programme as catheterisation is safe and easily accepted. Ten girls underwent Goebbel-Stoeckel operation, associated with sigmoido-cystoplasty in 6 cases. Eight of these girls are now perfectly continent with a normal social life, including one case with a follow-up of 12 years and a pregnancy. The authors stress the need, in cases of enterocystoplasty, to resect almost all of the pathological detrusor and to use the caecum rather than the hypertonic sigmoid.