cystoprostatovesiculectomy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cysto- + prostatovesiculectomy.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]cystoprostatovesiculectomy (plural cystoprostatovesiculectomies)
- (surgery) 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.
- 2015 October 30, “Do We Need Surveillance Urethro-Cystoscopy in Patients with Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction?”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- 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.