Urology
About the Department of Urology
Welcome to the Department of Urology at Boston Children's Hospital
The Department of Urology at Boston Children's Hospital evaluates, diagnoses and treats infants, children and adolescents with disorders of the genital and urinary organs. If your child has one of these disorders, whether it's a relatively common condition or a rare, complex congenital condition, we can help you.
Our department is recognized internationally and is staffed by experienced physicians who are teachers, leaders and innovators dedicated to state of the art urologic care, surgical expertise and research in all aspects of pediatric urology.
Boston Children’s Department of Urology is the largest pediatric urology service in the world with:
- 3,100 surgical procedures each year
- 18,000 outpatient visits
- 12 world-renowned faculty members
- a Urodynamics laboratory and uroradiology unit
- More robotic-assisted surgeries performed than any other pediatric hospital
Conditions & Treatments
- Ambiguous genitalia
- Anorectal malformation
- Circumcision
- Cloacal exstrophy
- Duplex collecting system
- Exstrophy of the bladder (bladder exstrophy)
- Hernia (umbilical or inguinal)
- Hydrocele
- Hypospadias
- Kidney stones
- Percutaneous nephrostomy
- Polycystic kidney disease (PKD)
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Testicular tumors
- Torsion of the Appendix Testis
- Undescended testicles
- Urinary tract infection (UTI)
- Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR)
- Voiding dysfunction
- Wilms' tumor
- Androgen insensitivity
- Bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis)
- Cloacal deformities
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
- Enuresis (urinary incontinence)
- Hematuria
- Horseshoe kidney
- Hydronephrosis
- Intravenous pyelogram (IVP)
- Neurogenic bladder
- Phimosis and paraphimosis
- Posterior urethral valves
- Testicular torsion
- Toilet Training
- Uncircumcised penis care
- Ureterocele
- Varicocele
- Voiding Cystourethrogram (VCUG)
- Whitaker test
