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The urethra is a tubular structure through which urine is expelled after accumulating in the physiological reservoir called the bladder. In men, this canal is also used by the seminal ducts and carries the sperm from the veru montanum all the way to the external urethral orifice.
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Barozzi, L., Pavlica, P., Valentino, M., De Matteis, M. (2008). US Imaging of the Male Urethra. In: Bertolotto, M. (eds) Color Doppler US of the Penis. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36677-5_19
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