Urology is also known as genitourinary surgery. It is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of both male and female urinary tract system and the male reproductive organs. Urology is a part of health care which deals with diseases of both male and female urinary tract such as kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra. It also deals with the male organs that are able to make babies such as penis, testes, scrotum, prostate, etc. Since health problems in these body parts can happen to everyone, so urologic health is really important.
Urology is also known as a surgical specialty. An urologist encounters a wide range of clinical problems. The disorders that may be treated by urologists include those involving the kidneys, the ureters such as tubes connecting the kidneys to the bladder, the adrenal glands, the bladder and the urethra such as the tube that passes urine out of the body from the bladder. In males, an urologist may also treat conditions of the testes, epididymis, vas deferens, seminal vesicles, prostate and penis. The field of urology involves the medical management of conditions such as urinary tract infection, prostate enlargement through to the surgical management of conditions such as bladder cancer, prostate cancer, kidney stones and stress incontinence.
Urologists treat a wide variety of conditions that affect the urinary system and male reproductive system.