 Urethra
"Urethra" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A tube that transports URINE from the URINARY BLADDER to the outside of the body in both the sexes. It also has a reproductive function in the male by providing a passage for SPERM.
| Descriptor ID |
D014521
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A05.360.444.492.726 A05.810.876
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| Concept/Terms |
Internal Urinary Sphincter- Internal Urinary Sphincter
- Internal Urinary Sphincters
- Sphincter, Internal Urinary
- Urinary Sphincter, Internal
- Internal Urethral Sphincter
- Internal Urethral Sphincters
- Sphincter, Internal Urethral
- Internal Vesical Sphincter
- Internal Vesical Sphincters
- Sphincter, Internal Vesical
- Vesical Sphincter, Internal
External Urinary Sphincter- External Urinary Sphincter
- External Urinary Sphincters
- Sphincter, External Urinary
- Urinary Sphincter, External
- External Urethral Sphincter
- External Urethral Sphincters
- Sphincter, External Urethral
- Urethral Sphincter, External
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| 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2003 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2014 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2018 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2020 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Urethra" by people in Profiles.
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Song Y, Nguyen L, Dornisch AM, Baxter MT, Barrett T, Dale AM, Dess RT, Harisinghani M, Kamran SC, Liss MA, Margolis DJA, Weinberg EP, Woolen SA, Seibert TM. Urethra contours on MRI: Multidisciplinary consensus educational atlas and reference standard for artificial intelligence benchmarking. Radiother Oncol. 2026 01; 214:111231.
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Davis MF, Nikolavsky D, Cavalcanti AG, Flynn BJ, Gomez RG, Loh-Doyle J, Boyd SD, Horiguchi A, Hofer MD, Fisch M, Dahlem R, Martins FE, Campos-Juanatey F, Rusilko PJ, Veiby Holm H, Simhan J, Angulo JC, Ludwig TA, Bernal JO, Higgins M, Vereecken S, Sterling J, Hays EK, Kolyvas PG, Stanisic A, Dorado JF, Venkatesan K. Multicenter Analysis of Long-Term Outcomes of Artificial Urinary Sphincter Surgery After Urethroplasty. J Urol. 2026 02; 215(2):203-212.
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Cohen AJ, Saba P, Abalajon MT, Anderson KT, Baradaran N, Benson C, Boysen WR, Breyer BN, Burnett AL, Campos F, Hampson L, Higuchi TT, Johnsen NV, Lumen N, Nikolavsky D, Pariser J, Simhan J, Vanni AJ, Warner N, James Wright E, Ghazi A. International Expert Consensus on Development of a State of the Art Male Perineal Anatomy Simulation Model for Urethroplasty and Artificial Urinary Sphincter Insertion. Urology. 2025 07; 201:117-123.
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Sterling J, Simhan J, Flynn BJ, Rusilko P, França WA, Ramirez EA, Angulo JC, Martins FE, Patel HV, Higgins M, Swerdloff D, Nikolavsky D. Multi-Institutional Outcomes of Dorsal Onlay Buccal Mucosal Graft Urethroplasty in Patients With Postprostatectomy, Postradiation Anastomotic Stenosis. J Urol. 2024 04; 211(4):596-604.
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Hwang CK, Moore S, Lee Z, Skokan AJ, Hagedorn JC. Blunt traumatic female urethral and bladder neck injuries: a 15-year single-institution experience. Int Urol Nephrol. 2023 Jul; 55(7):1665-1670.
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Higgins MM, Wengryn D, Koslov D, Oliver J, Flynn BJ. Female urethroplasty with dorsal onlay buccal mucosal graft: a single institution experience. Int Urol Nephrol. 2023 May; 55(5):1149-1154.
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Makedon A, Maroni P. Median Lobe Urethral Embolus After Focal Ablation of Gleason 7 Prostate Cancer. Oncology (Williston Park). 2021 07 13; 35(7):422-424.
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Schletker J, Wiersch J, Ketzer J, Edmonds T, Krause A, Simmons H, Peña A, De La Torre L, Bischoff A. An overview of opioid usage and regional anesthesia for patients undergoing repair of anorectal malformation. Pediatr Surg Int. 2021 Apr; 37(4):457-460.
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Erickson BA, Flynn KJ, Hahn AE, Cotter K, Alsikafi NF, Breyer BN, Broghammer JA, Buckley JC, Elliott SP, Myers JB, Peterson AC, Rourke KF, Smith TG, Vanni AJ, Voelzke BB, Zhao LC. Response to Letter to Editor: "Development and Validation of a Male Anterior Urethral Stricture Classification System". Urology. 2021 01; 147:327-328.
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Policastro CG, Simhan J, Martins FE, Lumen N, Venkatesan K, Angulo JC, Gupta S, Rusilko P, Ramírez Pérez EA, Redger K, Flynn BJ, Hughes M, Blakely S, Nikolavsky D. A multi-institutional critical assessment of dorsal onlay urethroplasty for post-radiation urethral stenosis. World J Urol. 2021 Jul; 39(7):2669-2675.
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