The Department of Urology at UPMC is at the forefront of providing clinical services, innovative treatment strategies, and fundamental research for diseases of the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive organs.

We offer a multidisciplinary approach to care, with our team of nationally recognized clinicians and researchers working together to make available the very latest in diagnostic and treatment options for urologic disease.

Through the Comprehensive Prostate and Urologic Cancer Center, we strive to provide state-of-the-art treatments and therapies for those with prostate and urologic cancers.

We are nationally renowned for our expertise in highly specialized technologies and minimally invasive surgical techniques, many of which have been developed or refined by UPMC surgeons.

Our patients have access to a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of all urologic tumors, including:

• Prostate
• Bladder
• Kidney
• Penile
• Ureter
• Urethral
• Adrenal
• Testicular

UPMC surgeons have particular expertise in a number of highly specialized technologies and minimally invasive surgical techniques. In many cases, our world-renowned surgeons have helped to develop or refine these innovative methods, including:

 

• Nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy
• Robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy
• Radical cystectomy with neobladder reconstruction
• Radical cystectomy with continent urinary diversion
• Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy
• Open radical nephrectomy
• Laparoscopic and open partial nephrectomy
• Radical nephrectomy with caval thrombus excision
• Nerve-sparing retroperitoneal lymph node dissection
• Post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection
• Minimally invasive ablative therapy for kidney cancer
• Radical orchiectomy
• Partial and radical penectomy
• Inguinal lymph node dissection

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*Source: UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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