Some conditions have similar symptoms to chronic prostatitis : Bladder neck hypertrophy and urethral stricture may both cause similar symptoms through urinary reflux ( " inter alia " ), and can be excluded through flexible urodynamic tests.
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"Johanson's staged urethroplasty revisited in the salvage treatment of 68 complex urethral stricture patients : presentation of total urethroplasty : European Urology, 39 : 268-71 ( 2001 ) + Editorial comment by Prof . Mundy.
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"' Urethral meatal stenosis "'or "'urethral stricture "'is a narrowing ( stenosis ) of the opening of the urethra at the external meatus, thus constricting the opening through which urine leaves the body from the urinary bladder.
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A 2005 article in the medical journal " Reviews in Urology " listed the incidence of several complications following radical prostatectomy : mortality 50 %, ejaculatory dysfunction 100 %, orgasmic dysfunction 50 %, incontinence < 5 %-30 %, pulmonary embolism < 1 %, rectal injury < 1 %, urethral stricture < 5 %, and transfusion 20 %.
