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Nephroureterectomy
Nephroureterectomy, also known as radical nephroureterectomy, is the en bloc removal of the kidney, entire ureter, and bladder cuff, performed mainly for upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma.
Nerve-sparing prostatectomy
Nerve-sparing prostatectomy, or nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy, is a surgical technique for radical prostatectomy that preserves the nerves alongside the prostate, reducing erectile dysfunction and incontinence without compromising cancer control.
Orchidopexy
Orchidopexy (or orchiopexy) is a surgical operation that moves an undescended testicle into the scrotum and fixes it there, the standard treatment for cryptorchidism in pediatric urology, ideally performed between 6 and 18 months of age.
Partial nephrectomy
Partial nephrectomy is a kidney cancer operation that removes the tumor with a thin rim of healthy tissue while leaving the rest of the kidney in place.
Penectomy
Penectomy is the surgical removal of the penis, partial or total, performed mainly to treat penile cancer; total penectomy routes the urethra to the perineum.
Penile prosthesis implantation
Penile prosthesis implantation is a surgical procedure placing inflatable or malleable devices to restore rigidity in men with erectile dysfunction unresponsive to tablets, vacuum devices, or injections.
Penile prosthesis surgery
Penile prosthesis surgery is the implantation of inflatable or malleable devices into the penis to produce erections, offered as third-line treatment for erectile dysfunction when pills, vacuum devices, and injections fail.
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is a surgical procedure that removes kidney stones through a small incision in the back, first-line treatment for stones larger than 20 mm, including staghorn stones.
Peter Freyer
Sir Peter Johnston Freyer (1851–1921) was an Irish surgeon in the Indian Medical Service who, after retiring to London, performed and publicised the suprapubic prostatectomy from 1900.
Photoselective vaporization of the prostate
Photoselective vaporization of the prostate (PVP) is a transurethral laser procedure that uses 532 nm green light to vaporize enlarged prostatic tissue causing urinary obstruction from benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Pyelolithotomy
Pyelolithotomy is a surgical procedure in which the renal pelvis is opened and kidney stones are removed directly through the incision, used when shockwave lithotripsy or endourological treatment fails.
Pyeloplasty
Pyeloplasty is a urological operation that treats ureteropelvic junction obstruction by excising the blocked segment and reconnecting the renal pelvis to the ureter, with about 95% success.
Radical cystoprostatectomy
Radical cystoprostatectomy is an operation removing the bladder and prostate together with the seminal vesicles, vas deferens, and pelvic lymph nodes, performed to treat bladder cancer.
Radical nephrectomy
Radical nephrectomy is a urologic operation that removes an entire kidney, with its surrounding fat within Gerota's fascia, to treat renal cell carcinoma, reserved for larger or more complex tumors.
Radical prostatectomy
Radical prostatectomy, also called open radical prostatectomy, is an operation that removes the prostate gland and seminal vesicles to cure prostate cancer confined to the gland, now mostly robot-assisted.
Renorrhaphy
Renorrhaphy is the multilayer suture repair of the kidney's resection bed during partial nephrectomy, providing hemostasis, watertight collecting-system closure, and repair of the renal defect after tumor excision.
Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection
Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) is a urologic operation that removes lymph nodes behind the abdominal organs around the aorta, used to stage and often cure testicular cancer.
Robotic cystectomy
Robotic cystectomy, formally robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC), is a minimally invasive operation that removes the urinary bladder, typically for muscle-invasive bladder cancer, using a robotic system.
Robotic pyeloplasty
Robotic pyeloplasty is a robot-assisted laparoscopic operation that reconstructs the ureteropelvic junction to relieve urine outflow obstruction from the kidney, first reported in 2002 and standard of care by 2020.
Shock wave lithotripsy
Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is a noninvasive treatment that uses focused acoustic shock waves to fragment kidney or ureteral stones so they pass in the urine.
Sling procedure
The sling procedure is a surgery for stress urinary incontinence in women that places a tension-free polypropylene mesh band under the midurethra; about 80% of women become dry, and 70% remain dry at 5 years.
Sling surgery
Sling surgery is a urologic procedure that places a strip of mesh or tissue beneath the urethra to treat stress urinary incontinence in women, often combined with prolapse repair.
Sperm retrieval
Sperm retrieval, also called testicular sperm retrieval, is a group of surgical procedures collecting sperm from the epididymis or testis for ICSI in azoospermia, used routinely since 1992.
Suburethral Slings
Suburethral slings are surgical treatments for female stress urinary incontinence, spanning the traditional pubovaginal fascial sling, the 1995 tension-free vaginal tape and other midurethral polypropylene mesh slings (retropubic or transobturator), and single-incision slings, with cure rates above 80% at five years.
Suprapubic cystostomy
Suprapubic cystostomy is a urological procedure that places a catheter through the lower abdominal wall into the bladder to drain urine, used when urethral catheterization is not possible.
Testicular sperm extraction
Testicular sperm extraction (TESE) is an open surgical procedure that removes small pieces of testicular tissue to retrieve sperm in men with azoospermia, for fertilization by ICSI.
Testis-sparing surgery
Testis-sparing surgery (TSS) is a urologic operation for testicular tumors in which the lesion is enucleated and the remaining tissue preserved, maintaining fertility and hormone production in carefully selected patients.
Transurethral ultrasound ablation
Transurethral ultrasound ablation (TULSA) is a minimally invasive treatment that destroys prostate tissue with directional ultrasound from a rotating urethral applicator, guided in real time by MRI thermometry.
Trimodal therapy (bladder cancer)
Trimodal therapy (TMT) is a bladder-sparing treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer combining maximal transurethral resection, radiosensitizing chemotherapy, and radiation, the main alternative to radical cystectomy.
Ureteral reimplantation
Ureteral reimplantation, also called ureteroneocystostomy, is a urologic operation that reconnects the ureter to the bladder to correct vesicoureteral reflux, achieving 95 to 99 percent correction in open surgery.