Lingual mucosal grafts for anterior urethroplasty: a review.

摘要

We read with great interest the review article by Song etal. [1]. First, we thank the authors for having believed in and having successfully applied our pioneering work [2]. We would like to be more specific on the topic of harvest graft site. Indeed, the authors stated that we 'reported the lateral mucosal lining of the tongue as the harvest graft site', citing our pilot study that was published in 2006 [2]. We admit that the description of the surgical technique was inaccurate in our first report. However, in a following paper [3], also cited by Song etal., we better detailed our surgical technique and we made clear that the site of the harvest graft is the ventrolateral mucosal surface of the tongue, below the lining that separates the dorsum, where the papillae are situated, from the sublingual mucosa.