Although this questionnaire was performed in 2002, its findings reflect the unfortunate and paradoxical realities of contemporary urethral stricture care in 2011. Although endoscopic and robotic advancements have clearly transformed all facets of our specialty over the past decade, the only reason that new, minimally invasive treatments have entered the mainstream is that they have been shown to deliver comparable or superior outcomes in terms of safety and efficacy. Nowhere in urology are high failure rates accepted as routinely as they are with endoscopic treatment of urethral strictures.
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