Urethral dilating sounds/bougies
Set of curved metal rods of progressively increasing caliber.
How it is used
Manually dilate a urethral stricture; a palliative or complementary treatment to urethrotomy or urethroplasty.
Sources
This entry is part of the Instriq catalog, researched and written per specialty from real web research -- never generated or invented without verification -- and reviewed skeptically and independently before publication. How this catalog is written.
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History
Added to the catalog on 2026-10-09.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.