Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion

Radical cystectomy remains the most effective form of treatment to date for muscleinvasive bladder cancer. Cystectomy is usually coupled with urinary diversion in the form of urinary conduit (e.g., Bricker ileal conduit), catheterizable continent pouch (e.g., Kock or Indiana pouch) or continent orthotopic neobladder (e.g., Studer or Sigmoid neobladder). Urinary diversion may also be performed for palliation of patients with intractable urinary symptoms, urinary fistula, bladder obstruction, or neurogenic bladder. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.