A rare cause of acute urinary retention in women: meatal condyloma accuminata, a case report

• Published in: The Pan African medical journal Vol. 24; no. 87; p. 87
• Main Authors: Cinar, Onder, Suat Bolat, Mustafa, Akdeniz, Ekrem, Sahinkaya, Necmettin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Uganda African Field Epidemiology Network 2016; The African Field Epidemiology Network; The Pan African Medical Journal
• Subjects: Acute Disease; acute urinary retention; Case Report; Case reports; Cervical cancer; condyloma acuminata; Condylomata Acuminata - complications; Condylomata Acuminata - diagnosis; Female; female urethra; Humans; Middle Aged; Papillomaviridae - isolation & purification; Urethral Diseases - complications; Urethral Diseases - diagnosis; Urethral Diseases - virology; Urinary Retention - etiology; Urinary Retention - virology; Acute urinary retention; female urethra; condyloma acuminata
• ISSN: 1937-8688; 1937-8688
• DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2016.24.87.9751

Acute urinary retention in women is a rarely seen phenomenon due to pharmacological, neuromuscular, anatomical, functional and infectious causes. Human papillomaviruses causing condyloma acuminata is one of the rarely reported viral infectious cause of acute urinary retention in case reports. A 45-year-old woman with acute urinary retention was found to have a round solid lesion on external urethral meatus. Histopathological examination revealed as condyloma acuminata. Urethral condyloma can be treated by local excision as an effective method for early improvement of voiding function. Even if the genital condyloma can be locally excised, patients should be referred to the gynecologists for cervical cancer screening.