cystoprostatovesiculectomy

noun

Surgical removal of the urinary bladder, prostate gland, and seminal vesicles, typically performed as a treatment for invasive pelvic malignancies, especially cancer of the bladder, and often accompanied by reconstruction of a new method for urine drainage such as a urostomy or intestinal urinary diversion.

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Meanings

nouncystoprostatovesiculectomy (plural cystoprostatovesiculectomies)

plural cystoprostatovesiculectomies

  1. medicineSurgical removal of the urinary bladder, prostate gland, and seminal vesicles, typically performed as a treatment for invasive pelvic malignancies, especially cancer of the bladder, and often accompanied by reconstruction of a new method for urine drainage such as a urostomy or intestinal urinary diversion.

    The patient with bladder cancer underwent bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy and radical cystoprostatovesiculectomy with a continent catheterizable reservoir and final histology revealed pT3b pN0 (0/15) cM0 G3 mucus-producing adenocarcinoma of the bladder.

    2015 October 30, “Do We Need Surveillance Urethro-Cystoscopy in Patients with Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From cysto- + prostatovesiculectomy.

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