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Of 51 patients with detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia undergoing external urethral spincterotomy by transurethral resection, histological examination revealed no skeletal muscle in the resected tissue in six patients. The functional improvement which resulted in these cases despite this finding with an explanation for the same forms the topic of this paper.
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Rao, M., Bapna, B., Vaidyanathan, S. et al. Transurethral external sphincterotomy sans external sphincter. Spinal Cord 16, 306–309 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1978.59
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1978.59