prostatic urethra

The prostatic urethra crosses the prostate gland.

The treatment involves inserting a special microwave urinary catheter into the hyperplastic prostatic urethra.

During HIFU, the entire prostate is ablated, including the prostatic urethra.

The prostatic urethra, the widest and most dilatable part of the urethra canal, is about 3 cm.

A coudé catheter is designed with a curved tip that makes it easier to pass through the curvature of the prostatic urethra.

In males, it may detect urethral stricture and the extent of narrowing in the prostatic urethra.

Prostate cancer is associated with urinary dysfunction as the prostate gland surrounds the prostatic urethra.

Multiple in situ bladder tumors that extend onto the bladder neck and proximal prostatic urethra.

Within the prostate, the urethra coming from the bladder is called the prostatic urethra and merges with the two ejaculatory ducts.

The prostate gland has four distinct glandular regions, two of which arise from different segments of the prostatic urethra:

Remnants of the müllerian duct and also be found in the prostatic utricle which is an expansion of the prostatic urethra.

The verumontanum, or mountain ridge, is a distinctive landmark in the prostatic urethra, important in the systemic division of posterior valve disorders:

Except for the prostatic urethra, where transitional cell carcinoma is most common, squamous cell carcinoma is the predominant histology of urethral neoplasms.

The seminal colliculus (Latin colliculus seminalis), or verumontanum, of the prostatic urethra is a landmark near the entrance of the seminal vesicles.

It absorbs the ends of the Wolffian ducts and the associated ends of the renal diverticula, and these give rise to the trigone of urinary bladder and part of the prostatic urethra.

In males, the urethral crest is known as the crista urethralis masculinae, or the crista phallica, and is a longitudinal fold on the posterior wall of the urethra extending from the uvula of the bladder through the prostatic urethra.

The prostatic utricle (Latin for "pouch of the prostate") is a small indentation located in the prostatic urethra, at the apex of the urethral crest, on the seminal colliculus (verumontanum), laterally flanked by openings of the ejaculatory ducts.

In the male the Müllerian ducts atrophy, but traces of their anterior ends are represented by the appendices testis (hydatids of Morgagni of the male), while their terminal fused portions form the utriculus in the floor of the prostatic urethra.

The remainder of the vesico-urethral portion forms the body of the bladder and part of the prostatic urethra; its apex is prolonged to the umbilicus as a narrow canal, the urachus, which later is obliterated and becomes the median umbilical ligament of the adult.