What is Urology?
Updated: Oct 4, 2021
It is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the male and female urinary-tract system and the male reproductive organs.
Here are some of the most common diseases encountered by a Urologist:
Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)
Blood in urine (hematuria)
Flank pains
Hypogastric pain
Difficulty urination
Painful urination (dysuria)
Frequency
Penile discharge
Scrotal pain and enlargement
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
Male Infertility
PROBLEMS of different ORGANS:
Kidney/Renal (Stones, cyst, & cancer)
Ureter (Stones, cyst, & cancer)
Urinary Bladder (Stones, cyst, & cancer)
Urethra (Stones, cyst, & cancer)
Prostate (Enlargement and cancer)
Penis (Foreign body, hypospadias, deformity & cancer)
Inguino-scrotal (Hernia, epididymo-orchitis, testicular torsion, hydrocele, varicocoele & testicular cancer)
UROLOGIC TRAUMA (involving all organs mentioned above)
Had a kidney stone scare a few years back and had no idea urology covered this much until my doctor walked me through it. Random thought, but a friend who works front desk at a clinic says urology billing services alone is basically its own full-time job.