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Urology (from Greek οὖρον ouron "urine" and -λογία -logia "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary system and the reproductive organs. Organs under the domain of urology include the kidneys, adrenal glands, ureters, urinary bladder ...
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male [1] [2] [3] (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men ...
Urology, medical genetics. Hypospadias is a common variation in fetal development of the penis in which the urethra does not open from its usual location on the head of the penis. It is the second-most common birth defect of the male reproductive system, affecting about one of every 250 males at birth, [3] although when including milder cases ...
Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) refer to a group of clinical symptoms involving the bladder, urinary sphincter, urethra and, in men, the prostate.The term is more commonly applied to men – over 40% of older men are affected – but lower urinary tract symptoms also affect women.
University of Mississippi Medical Center. / 32.328853; -90.173159. University of Mississippi Medical Center ( UMMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. UMMC, also referred to as the Medical Center, is the state's only academic medical center .
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ( UT Southwestern or UTSW) is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas. With approximately 23,000 employees, [3] more than 3,000 full-time faculty, and nearly 4 million outpatient visits per year, UT Southwestern is the largest medical school in the University of Texas System ...
Was the first women's and children's hospital in Mississippi. Bought by Anderson Regional Medical Center in 2010. St. Joseph's Hospital Meridian: Lauderdale: 154 1961 1989 Name changed to Meridian Regional Hospital in 1977. Upon closing, became psychiatric-only facility and was renamed Alliance Health Center. Taborian Hospital: Mound Bayou ...
The outpatient department is an important part of the overall running of the hospital. It is normally integrated with the in-patient services and staffed by consultant physicians and surgeons who also attend inpatients in the wards. Many patients are examined and given treatment as outpatients before being admitted to the hospital at a later ...
Radical retropubic prostatectomy is a surgical procedure in which the prostate gland is removed through an incision in the abdomen (in comparison with perineal prostatectomy, done through the perineum). It is most often used to treat individuals who have early prostate cancer. Radical retropubic prostatectomy can be performed under general ...
Category. : Urology. Urology is a medical and surgical specialty that deals with diseases of the urinary tract and the male reproductive system. It overlaps with andrology, and interacts often with nephrology, the non-surgical specialty that deals with kidney disease. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Urology.