Most people with bladder cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If bladder cancer has spread beyond your bladder, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat ...
After surgery to remove your bladder, you need another way to collect and pass your urine. Doctors call this urinary diversion. There are different types of urinary diversion. Your doctor will talk to ...
Q: My primary-care doctor sent me for a blood test and said my prostate-specific antigen number was too high, then sent me to a urologist. The urologist said I am retaining urine in the bladder. After ...
Cystolitholapaxy is a surgical procedure where stones in the urinary bladder are broken down into pieces. The procedure is carried out with an instrument called a cystoscope that is introduced into ...
A urostomy is an abdominal wall opening that allows urine to leave the body through a stoma. A nephrostomy is a temporary tube to drain urine directly from one or both kidneys. A urostomy takes the ...
Surgery for overactive bladder is considered when other treatments have not been effective in alleviating symptoms. Surgical options include sacral nerve stimulation to regulate bladder nerve impulses ...
Study design: Prospective monocentric follow-up study. Objectives: To assess the results of cutaneous non-continent diversion for neurogenic bladder management. Settings: Department of Urology ...