Urologic Surgery

Turn to UNC Health Johnston for excellent care during surgery on the urinary tract or male reproductive organs. A urologic surgeon may treat you in our hospitals after meeting with you at UNC Specialty Care in Clayton or another clinic.

Surgical Urologic Procedures

Expect the UNC Health Johnson surgical team to help ensure your safety and good outcome during treatments such as:

• Bladder cancer surgery
  • Cystectomy – Removes all or part of the bladder
  • Transurethral resection – Takes tumors out of the bladder
• Lithotripsy – Uses shock waves to break up kidney stones
• Nephrectomy – Removes all or part of the kidney to treat cancer or to donate the organ to someone with kidney disease
• Prostatectomy – Removes the prostate gland to treat prostate cancer
• Ureteroscopy – Uses lasers to remove kidney stones
• Vasectomy – Takes away a man’s ability to cause pregnancy

Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery

Ask if your surgeon will use UNC Health Johnson’s da Vinci surgical robot to perform your procedure in the most precise, least invasive way. Minimally invasive robotic surgery uses only a few tiny incisions rather than one large incision. That means you may recover faster and with less pain or scarring.