What is a cystoscopy or ureterscopy? are they painful?

Procedures that...: Visualize the urinary tract. A cystoscopy is used to inspect the bladder and urethra. This is usually performed in the office, with some local numbing gel in the urethra. There is discomfort when the scope passes across the urinary sphincter and with bladder filling. A ureteroscopy is performed in the or with general or spinal anesthesia to inspect the ureter for tumor or stones.

Cystoscopy: Cystoscopy is looking in the urethra (pee channel) into the bladder. Ureteroscopy is looking into the ureter (tube that drains the kidney) flexible cystoscopy is done in the office and is uncomfortable but manageable for most patients. Rigid cystoscopy and ureteroscopy are painful and require patient to be completely still and typically done under anesthesia in the or.

Here are...: The involved procedures are done under anesthesia so you would not feel a thing during the procedures. Cystoscopy is used to gain access through urethra into the bladder for diagnosis as well as rx for many conditions. Ureteroscopy, with much finer ; longer instruments, is used to diagnose and treat various diseases in ureters ; kidneys. And either scope can be rigid or flexible. Detail? Ask...