Treatment of problems affecting the male and female urinary tracts as well as the male reproductive organs is the focus of the surgical specialty of urology. Urologists are medical experts with specialised training in the diagnosis, detection, and treatment of this group of illnesses and diseases.
Among the conditions that urologists may treat include those affecting the kidneys, ureters (tubes that connect the kidneys to the bladder), adrenal glands, bladder, and urethra (the tube that passes urine out of the body from the bladder). A urologist can also treat issues with the penis, prostate, seminal vesicles, vas deferens, testes, and epididymis in males. In the field of urology, diseases including urinary tract infections and enlarged prostates are treated medically, whereas kidney stones, stress incontinence, bladder cancer, and prostate cancer are treated surgically.
