Exfoliative Cytology of the Senile Female Urethra

AGE CHANGES IN THE FEMALE URETHRA1

“…This association had been noted previously by Everett (1941), who suggested that the urinary symptoms were due to a similar process affecting the urethra, a condition he described as senile urethritis. Subsequently, Salmon and his co-workers (Salmon et al, 1941) agreed with this view and pointed out the relief of symptoms obtained by treatment with estrogens, a fact more recently confirmed by Youngblood and his co-workers (Youngblood et al, 1958) and Roberts (Roberts et al, 1970).…”