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Urologic Surgery

General Surgical Techniques

• Surgical approaches in urology:
  • Midline laparotomy
  • Subcostal incision
  • Thoracoabdominal laparotomy
  • Flank incision
  • Lower midline incision
  • Pfannenstiel incision
  • Paramedian laparotomy
  • Gibson incision
  • Inguinal incision
  • Surgical approach to the groin
  • Circumcising incision
  • Perineal approach for surgery of the bulbar urethra and membranous urethra
  • Lithotomy position
• Laparoscopy
  • Laparoscopy in Urology
  • Surgical technique of laparoscopy
  • Complications of laparoscopy
• Bowel anastomosis

Surgical Procedures of the Kidneys

• Open simple nephrectomy
• Open radical nephrectomy
• Open partial nephrectomy
• Laparoscopic nephrectomy
• Retroperitoneoscopic nephrectomy
• Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy
• Percutaneous nephrolithotomy
• Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL)

Surgical Procedures of the Ureters

• Nephroureterectomy
• Open pyeloplasty
• Laparoscopic pyeloplasty
• Ureteroureterostomy
• Ureterocystoneostomy
• Megaureter operations
• Ureteroscopy

Surgical Procedures of the Bladder

• Tension-free vaginal tape (TVT)
• Cystolitholapaxy
• Transurethral resection of the bladder (TURB)
• Cystolithotomy (sectio alta)
• Cystectomy
• Principles of urinary diversion
• Ileum conduit
• Colon conduit
• Ureterocutaneostomy
• Ileum neobladder (Studer)
• Ileum neobladder (Hautmann)
• Continent heterotope urostoma (Mainz-Pouch I)

Surgical Procedures of the Prostate

• Prostate biopsy
• Transurethral Resection of the Prostate
• Greenlight laser treatment of BPH
• Suprapubic simple prostatectomy
• Retropubic simple prostatectomy (Millin)
• Retropubic radical prostatectomy
• Laparoscopic pelvine lymphadenectomy
• Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy
• Radical perineal prostatectomy
• Brachytherapy of the prostate

Surgical Procedures of the Penis

• Circumcision
• Frenuloplasty
• Internal urethrotomy
• Open urethral reconstruction: reanastomosis
• Open urethral reconstruction: single-stage with tissue transfer
• Open urethral reconstruction: two-stage repair
• Operations for penile deviation
• Principles of hypospadia operations
• MAGPI hypospadia repair
• Tubularized incised plate urethroplasty (TIP) hypospadia repair
• Mathieu hypospadia repair
• Duckett hypospadia repair
• Two-stage hypospadia repair
• Partial penectomy
• Radical penectomy and perineal urethrostomy
• Inguinal lymphadenectomy for penile cancer

Surgical Procedures of the Testis

• Inguinal orchidopexy
• Scrotal orchiectomy
• Radical (inguinal) orchiectomy
• Retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy
• Hydrocelectomy
• Spermatocelectomy
• Vasectomy

Surgical Procedures of the Adrenal Glands

• Adrenalectomy

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