Abstract
To assess the histological changes found in patients with long-term external sphincter, prostatic and urethral stents. Eighteen patients with long-term stents (mean time since insertion 3.5 years) were investigated. Three had external sphincter stents for detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia secondary to spinal injury, eight had prostatic stents for obstruction secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia and seven had urethral stents for recurrent strictures. Nine stents were occluded at investigation, of which seven were entirely removed. The mucosae overlying the remaining two were biopsied, as were mucosae over the nine patent stents, at urethroscopy. The changes observed included polypoid hyperplasia (11 of 18 patients) between and around the stent mesh wires, nonkeratinizing squamous metaplasia (two) or hyperkeratotic squamous metaplasia (seven), chronic inflammation (15) with prominent plasma cell infiltrates (11), variable foreign-body granuloma (two) and microabscess formation (five), usually associated with clefts formed around the stent wires (three of five). Stents become incorporated into the urethral wall by a process of polypoid hyperplasia through the stent mesh, with at least focal covering of the stent in most cases, a...Continue Reading
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