Urology is the medical specialty dealing with the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive system. It covers the kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra and, in men, the testes, epididymis, seminal vesicles, vas deferens, prostate, penis and scrotum. Urogynecology is a further subspecialty devoted to female urinary and general gynecological conditions – a combination of gynecology and urology.
Urology is divided into surgical and medical urology. Today we look specifically at [Urology]: its diseases, surgery and related instruments.
Surgical and medical urology
The clear difference between them is that surgical urology diagnoses and treats surgical conditions of the urinary tract, such as complex kidney stones, urinary stones, prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis, bladder and kidney tumors, surgical conditions of the testes, injuries and malformations of the urinary tract, and hydronephrosis caused by ureteropelvic junction obstruction.
As medicine develops, more conditions keep moving from internal medicine to surgical urology, including renovascular hypertension and adrenal diseases.
In other words, the conditions of surgical urology basically require surgery, while those of medical urology do not.
Statistics show that only about 20% of patients with urological diseases need surgery; most urological conditions are treated with medication.
Although urology is one of the older specialties, its development is still uneven – many specialist hospitals still have other departments but no urology.
Urology and minimally invasive surgery
Even so, urology is a very important specialty that needs to be developed. As the pace of life accelerates, prostate diseases and stones in men are increasing sharply, and most require surgical treatment. Conventional urological surgery used to have a major impact on men's daily lives, but the rapid development of minimally invasive surgery in recent years has reduced the pain and side effects of urological surgery to a minimum.
Richard Wolf
Advances in instrument technology are key to the rise of minimally invasive surgery. As a pioneer in endoscopy, Richard Wolf works closely with the world's leading urologists to drive medical progress and improve patient health.
Richard Wolf turns trends in endourology into innovative new products, providing comprehensive, high-quality instruments and equipment for many urological procedures: transurethral resection of the prostate; bipolar, holmium laser, thulium laser and green light laser enucleation of the prostate; flexible cystoscopy and flexible ureterorenoscopy; mini percutaneous nephrolithotomy; rigid cystoscopy and rigid ureterorenoscopy; intracorporeal lithotripsy and extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL); photodynamic diagnosis (PDD); and pediatric urology.
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