Carcinoma of the male urethra, with report of a case

✍ Scribed by Henry Mortensen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1937
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 520 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800249604

✦ Synopsis

CARCINOMA of the male urethra is a clinical entity of rarity, often remaining undiagnosed until the possibility of curative measures being undertaken has passed, This report of a further case is therefore of interest, and serves to demonstrate an instructive and unique pathological specimen.

Although other portions of the genito-urinary tract become frequently the seat of tumour formation, the urethra, particularly in the male, is singularly free. According to Gurlk, quoted by Englisch,' only 3 cases of carcinoma of the urethra were discovered in a series of .4000 tumours of the male genito-urinary tract. Since the report of a case by Kirwin in 1932,~ who was able to find accounts of 98 cases in the literature, 9 other cases have been reported by Geislery3 Beck,4 Lower,5 BoggonY6 Lazarus,' Astraldiys and M ~N a l l y . ~ These, with the case herewith published, bring the total up to 109. The rarity of the condition, coupled with