Urology
Samaritan’s Urology Center offers comprehensive care for urological diseases and conditions that affect the prostate, genitals and urinary tract. We work in close communication with your primary care physician and other specialists to design a comprehensive, personalized treatment plan that’s right for you.
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What conditions do you treat? Close
We treat:
- Cancers of the genito-urinary tract (prostate, kidney, bladder, testis, penis, adrenal)
- Benign prostate enlargement and related problems
- Kidney and other urinary stones
- Erectile dysfunction (impotence)
- Peyronie’s disease (penile curvature)
- Female sexual dysfunction
- Male infertility and sterilization
- Voiding disorder (frequency, urgency, poor flow, urinary retention, etc.)
- Urinary leakage (incontinence) and bladder control issues (male and female)
- Hematuria
- Prostatitis
- Varicocele
- Hydrocele
- PSA assessment
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What in-office procedures do you provide? Close
- Vasectomy
- Circumcision
- Cyst/lesion removal
- Cystoscopy
- Urodynamics
- Uroflowmetry
- Bladder scan
- Dilation of the urethra
- Prostate ultrasound and biopsy
- Penile Doppler ultrasound
- Intracavernosal penile injection therapy
- Implantation of testosterone pellets (Testopel)
- Removal of genital growths (laser)
- Intravesical immunotherapy or chemotherapy (for bladder cancer)
- Injection or implantation of LHRH analogs (for prostate cancer)
- MRI/US fusion targeted prostate biopsies with Uronav-Invivo technology
- Xiaflex injection for Peyronie’s disease
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What surgical procedures do you provide? Close
Cancer surgeries:
- Radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer
- Radical cystectomy with urinary diversion for bladder cancer
- Radical and partial nephrectomy for kidney cancer
- Radical nephroureterectomy for upper urinary tract cancer
- Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for testis cancer
- Groin lymph node dissection for penile cancer
Robotic reconstructive surgeries:
- Pyeloplasty for ureteral pelvic junction obstruction
- Ureteral strictures
- Sacrocolpopexy
- Bladder reconstructive surgery (augmentation, diverticulectomy, other)
Laparoendoscopic Single Site Surgery (“LESS”) in urology:
- Kidney surgery (reconstructive, partial or total removal)
- Open radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer
- Open cystectomy (removal of bladder) with urinary diversion
- Transurethral resection of bladder tumors
Transurethral surgery for prostate enlargement:
- Conventional TURP and Bipolar TURP
- Microwave therapy
- Greenlight laser XPS Moxy Fiber
- Holmium laser enucleation
- Bipolar button plasmakinetics
Additional surgeries:
- Open prostate surgery for benign enlargement/blockage
- Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (for stone disease)
- Ureteroscopy or uretero-pyeloscopy, with or without holmium laser therapy (ureteral endoscopy for stones, tumors and other abnormalities of the upper urinary tract)
- Placement of ureteral stents, conventional and metallic stents (to unblock urinary passages)
- Penile procedures (curvature problems, penile prostheses, correction of urethral opening)
- Female genital prolapse surgery
- Male anti-incontinence surgeries
- Female anti-incontinence surgeries
- Vasectomy
- Groin and scrotal surgery (including tumors & cysts in testes/scrotum)
- Botox injections for urinary incontinence
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What should I bring to my appointment? Close
Before you go, please be sure to gather the following:
- Your driver’s license or other photo ID with a current address. If the photo ID does not have a current address, please bring a current utility bill or other correspondence that includes this information.
- Your current health insurance cards
- A referral from your primary care physician
- Co-pays
- Any imaging (radiology) studies related to the reason for your visit
- A list of written medications
- A list of questions or concerns you have
Samaritan Urology Center
22567 Summit Drive
Building II, Suite A
Watertown, NY 13601
P. 315-782-7230
F. 315-782-3209