Reconstructive Urology

Reconstructive urology surgery can help patients with

conditions such as birth defects, cancer, neurological

disorders, male and female incontinence, strictures, scar

tissue in the urinary tract organs, and pelvic floor

prolapse.

Reconstructive urology can also help repair traumatic

injuries to the kidney, ureter, bladder, and genitals.

Traumatic injuries are often associated with pelvic

fractures that can happen as a result of things like motor

vehicle accidents or falls, and can often lead to scar

tissue formation in the urethra.

Pediatric Urology

Pediatric urology is a surgical subspecialty of medicine

dealing with the disorders of children’s genitourinary

systems. Pediatric urologists provide care for both boys

and girls ranging from birth to early adult age. The most

common problems are those involving disorders of urination,

reproductive organs and testes.

Some of the problems they deal with are:

• Bladder control problems such as bedwetting and daytime
  
  urinary incontinence
• Undescended testes (cryptorchidism)
• Hypospadias
• Epispadias
• Urolithiasis (bladder and kidney stones).
• Chordee and other minor malformations of the penis
• Phimosis
• Urinary obstruction and vesicoureteral reflux.
• Neurogenic bladder (e.g., associated with spina bifida).
• Antenatal hydronephrosis
• Tumors and cancers of the kidneys
• Repair of genitourinary trauma
• Genitourinary malformations and birth defects
• Prune belly syndrome
• Cloacal exstrophy, bladder exstrophy, and

  epispadias

• Ambiguous genitalia and intersex conditions.

Endourology





Endourology refers to a specific specialty area in urology

in which small internal endoscopes and instrumentation are

used to see into the urinary tract and perform surgery.

Urology is a surgical specialty which deals with diseases

of the male and female urinary tract and the male

reproductive organs. Although urology technically is a

“surgical specialty,” a urologist must be knowledgeable in

other areas including internal medicine, pediatrics and

gynecology because of the wide variety of clinical problems

that a urologist deals with.