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CONCLUSION
Radiotherapy causes urethral stricture, and its management presents a challenge for medical practitioners as
well as patients. Urethroplasty remains the pillar of surgical treatment for these patients to improve their
quality of life by avoiding chronic urethral or suprapubic catheterization. Most urethral strictures are
located in the bulbomembranous urethra and are manageable with excision and primary anastomosis. We
conclude that reconstructive genitourinary surgeons must reserve the graft tissue or flaps in extensive
defects due to the characteristics of irradiated tissues to avoid a failure in the management in these cases.

DECLARATIONS
Authors’ contributions
Drafting of the manuscript, important intellectual content, and technical support: Guerra C
Drafting of the manuscript and critical revision of the manuscript: Aleksic P
Drafting of the manuscript and critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Guerra
C
Drafting of the manuscript and technical support: Davila S
Drafting of the manuscript and supervision of the manuscript: Pušica S

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