Pediatric urology

Pediatric urology is a specialized field of medicine that deals with the surgical treatment of genitourinary system disorders in children. The age range of patients treated by pediatric urologists is from birth to early adulthood, encompassing both boys and girls. The disorders commonly treated by pediatric urologists include issues with urination, reproductive organs, and testes.

Some of the specific problems that pediatric urologists treat include:

• bladder control problems such as bedwetting and daytime urinary incontinence,
• undescended testes (cryptorchidism),
• hypospadias,
• epispadias
• urolithiasis (bladder and kidney stones)
• chordee and other minor malformations of the penis
• phimosis
• urinary obstruction and vesicoureteral reflux
• neurogenic bladder (e.g., associated with spina bifida)
• antenatal hydronephrosis
• tumors and cancers of the kidneys
• repair of genitourinary trauma
• genitourinary malformations and birth defects
• prune belly syndrome
• cloacal exstrophy
• bladder exstrophy, and epispadias
• ambiguous genitalia and intersex conditions.