A cystoscopy is a test to check the health of your urethra and bladder. You might also hear it called a cystourethroscopy or, more simply, a bladder scope. It’s an outpatient test, which means you can ...

A cystoscopy is a test to look at the inside of your bladder and tube that carries urine from your bladder out of your body (urethra). It uses a thin tube called a cystoscope. The flexible cystoscope ...

Cystoscopy and ureteroscopy are diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, usually performed by urologists, or doctors who specialize in diseases of the urinary tract. These procedures use endoscopes to ...

If you're having any issues in your bladder or urethra, a cystoscopy might be necessary. A cystoscopy is an interventional procedure that provides a view of the interior of the bladder and/or urethra, ...

A cystoscopy is a procedure that involves inserting a tool into the urethra and up into the bladder to examine these organs. The tool is a cystoscope — a thin, flexible instrument with a light and a ...

If a diagnosis of TCC of the bladder is suspected, urinary cytology followed by white-light cystoscopy of the bladder is performed. Although white-light cystoscopy is reliable in the detection of ...

This paper looks at the findings of a postal survey that sought to identify patients' perception of, and satisfaction with, their nurse-led cystoscopy surveillance service. The patients had ...

Karen Kilburn, BSc (Hons), RN.Urology Nurse Practitioner, University Hospital of North Tees, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust, StocktonAround 13 200 new cases of bladder cancer are diagnosed each ...

After the evaluation of five bladder cancer surveillance strategies in a prospective trial, researchers have concluded that the use of cystoscopy alone, the current standard of care for recurrence ...

Flexible cystoscopy is an examination of the interior of the bladder with a fine, soft tube with a telescopic camera called a flexible cystoscope. It differs from traditional rigid cystoscopy, due to ...

Blue light cystoscopy reduces bladder cancer recurrence risk by 38% compared to white light cystoscopy, as shown in the BRAVO study. The BRAVO study used real-world data from 626 veterans, confirming ...