Minimally Invasive (Robotic/Laparoscopic) Pediatric Urology Surgery: Procedures Offered

• Bladder and neurogenic bladder cystoplasty: reconstruction of the bladder (enlargement of bladder with bowel)
• Fetal urological surgery: surgery before the fetus is born
• Heminephrectomy/ureterectomy: removal of part of one of the kidneys (duplex kidney) and/or removal of the ureter
• Intersex: removal of abnormal gonads, ovarian cyst
• Megaureter corrections: correction of dilated and obstructed ureter
• Mitrofanoff (appendicovesicostomy): surgical procedure attaching the appendix to the urinary bladder to provide an outlet for urine (continent catheterizable channel)
• Nephrectomy/nephroureterctomy: removal of one of the kidneys/ removal of a kidney and the ureter
• Orchidopexy: correction of undescended testis
• Pyeloplasty: removal of an obstruction (UPJ) and reconnection of the kidney drainage system
• Ureteric reimplantation: vesicoureteral reflux (VUR)
• Varicocele treatment: ligation of abnormal dilated veins draining the testis