Urology

This condition is an inability to hold back urine when pressure or physical stress is placed on the bladder. Stress incontinence can cause embarrassing incidents of wet clothing.

This procedure looks inside your bladder. Your doctor uses a viewing device called a "cystoscope." There are two types of cystoscopes. Flexible scopes are used only for viewing. Rigid scopes also have a channel to pass small instruments through.

This minimally-invasive procedure, performed with the da Vinci Surgical System, is used to treat bladder cancer by removing all or part of the bladder. In men, treatment may also require removal of the lymph nodes, prostate and seminal vesicles. In women, treatment may also require removal of the surrounding lymph nodes, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries.