DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY EDUCATION

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Cystoscopy/Urethroscopy

What is Cystoscopy?

Cystoscopy is an examination of the inside of the bladder.

What is Uretroscopy?

Also known as Uretero Renoscopy (URS) is a examination of the inside of the Upper Urinary Tract (ureters and renal pelvis and calyces)

What is a Cystoscope ?

A cystoscope is a long, thin instrument with an eyepiece on the external end and a tiny lens and a light on the end that is inserted into the bladder. The cystoscope is inserted into the patient’s urethra, and the small lens magnifies the inner lining of the urethra and bladder, allowing to see inside the hollow bladder.

What is a Cystoscope ?

There are two types of Cystoscopes Rigid cystoscope Flexible Cystoscopy

What is a Uretroscope ?

A ureteroscope, like a cystoscope, is an instrument for examining the inside of the urinary tract.

A ureteroscope is longer and thinner than a cystoscope and is used to see beyond the bladder into the ureters, the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder and the renal pelvis and calyces.

What is a Uretroscope ? Ureteroscope is also of two types Rigid Ureteroscope Flexible Ureteroscope

Anatomy of the Urinary Tract

When does the patient require Cystoscopy?

frequent urinary tract infections. blood in the urine, which is called hematuria a frequent and urgent need to urinate. unusual cells found in a urine sample. painful urination, chronic pelvic pain. urinary blockage caused by prostate enlargement or some

other abnormal narrowing of the urinary tract. a stone in the urinary bladder. an unusual growth, polyp, tumor, in the bladder.

When does the patient require Uretroscopy?

For Treatment of Stones in the Ureters and in the kidney (RIRS).

Urinary blockage caused by an abnormal narrowing of the ureter.

Cystoscopy Procedure

Rigid Cystoscopy Flexible Cystoscopy

Urethroscopy Procedure

Rigid Urethroscopy Flexible Urethroscopy

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