Pediatric Urology
We rank among the best children's hospitals in the U.S. in pediatric urology, according to U.S. News & World Report. With extensive training and experience, we focus our care on the special needs of children and their parents − even on potentially sensitive and embarrassing subjects related to genitalia and voiding problems.
If your child has an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, we have the training and experience to diagnose, treat and manage your child's care. We also know how to examine and treat children in a way that makes them relaxed and cooperative. Our services include:
- Evaluation and management of voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux and urinary tract infections that require surgery
- Surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract (kidneys, ureters and bladder), including genital abnormalities, hypospadias and disorders of sex development
- Surgery for groin conditions in childhood and adolescence, such as undescended testes, hydrocele/hernia and varicocele
- Evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease
- Surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder and testis
- Evaluation and management of urological tract problems identified before birth
- Evaluation and management of urinary tract problems associated with neurological conditions like spina bifida
We also use urodynamic tests to show how well the bladder and sphincter muscles work and help explain symptoms such as incontinence, frequent urination, problems starting a urine stream, painful urination, problems emptying the bladder completely, and recurrent urinary tract infections.
