This document provides information about cystoscopy and urethroscopy procedures. It defines cystoscopy as an examination of the inside of the bladder using a cystoscope, which is a thin instrument with a lens and light. Urethroscopy examines the inside of the upper urinary tract including the ureters and renal pelvis using a ureteroscope. Cystoscopy and urethroscopy can be performed rigidly or flexibly to evaluate issues like blood in the urine, infections, or abnormalities. The document outlines the procedures and anatomy of the urinary tract and discusses common reasons for requiring cystoscopy or urethroscopy like stones, tumors, or blockages.

1. DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY EDUCATION
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Cystoscopy/Urethroscopy

2. What is Cystoscopy?
 Cystoscopy is an examination of the inside
of the bladder.

3. What is Uretroscopy?
 Also known as Uretero Renoscopy
(URS) is a examination of the inside
of the Upper Urinary Tract (ureters
and renal pelvis and calyces)

4. What is a Cystoscope ?
A cystoscope is a long, thin instrument with an
eyepiece on the external end and a tiny lens
and a light on the end that is inserted into the
bladder. The cystoscope is inserted into the
patient’s urethra, and the small lens magnifies
the inner lining of the urethra and bladder,
allowing to see inside the hollow bladder.

5. What is a Cystoscope ?
 There are two types of Cystoscopes
Rigid cystoscope Flexible Cystoscopy

6. What is a Uretroscope ?
 A ureteroscope, like a cystoscope, is an instrument
for examining the inside of the urinary tract.
 A ureteroscope is longer and thinner than a
cystoscope and is used to see beyond the bladder
into the ureters, the tubes that carry urine from the
kidneys to the bladder and the renal pelvis and
calyces.

7. What is a Uretroscope ?
 Ureteroscope is also of two types
Rigid Ureteroscope Flexible Ureteroscope

8. Anatomy of the Urinary Tract

9. When does the patient require Cystoscopy?
 frequent urinary tract infections.
 blood in the urine, which is called hematuria
 a frequent and urgent need to urinate.
 unusual cells found in a urine sample.
 painful urination, chronic pelvic pain.
 urinary blockage caused by prostate enlargement or some
other abnormal narrowing of the urinary tract.
 a stone in the urinary bladder.
 an unusual growth, polyp, tumor, in the bladder.

10. When does the patient require Uretroscopy?
For Treatment of Stones in the Ureters and in
the kidney (RIRS).
Urinary blockage caused by an abnormal
narrowing of the ureter.

11. Cystoscopy Procedure
Rigid Cystoscopy Flexible Cystoscopy

12. Urethroscopy Procedure
Rigid Urethroscopy Flexible Urethroscopy

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