Pediatric urologyExcellent care every step of the way

UW Health Kids Urology experts understand the stress and awkward situations that can arise when your child needs urologic care. It's a sensitive issue, so we provide the information you need to make informed decisions about your child's care. Together, we take excellent care of your child every step of the way.

Conditions and treatments

Family-centered care for all childhood urologic conditions

Urologic conditions can affect your child’s bladder, kidneys and even reproductive organs. Our UW Health Kids team is specially trained in pediatric urology. We’re experts at performing surgery to correct problems that are present at birth. We also effectively treat conditions that develop later in your child’s life.

Through evaluation, diagnosis and treatment, we focus on your child and you. We aim to provide the best care and best experience for you both.

Care for your child’s urological needs

Our specialists excel in the diagnosis and treatment of many childhood urological conditions.

How we can help

The wide range of urologic conditions necessitates a wide range of treatments. Whenever possible, we turn to nonsurgical options first. Children who do require surgery are in excellent hands with our team.

Treatments we offer include:

  • Bladder augmentation

  • Bladder exstrophy repair

  • Chordee repair

  • Circumcision and circumcision revision

  • Clitoroplasty

  • Corporal disproportion repair of hidden penis with chordee

  • Correction of cloaca and cloacal exstrophy

  • Cystometrogram

  • Cystoscopy

  • Cystoscopy with Deflux injections

  • Cystoscopy with resection of posterior urethral valves

  • Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy

  • Hydrocele repair

  • Hypospadias repair

  • Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair

  • Meatal stenosis/meatotomy

  • Meatourethroplasty with urethral advancement

  • Nephrectomy

  • Open inguinal hernia repair

  • Orchiectomy

  • Orchiopexy

  • Penoplasty

  • Pyeloplasty

  • Release of labial adhesions

  • Release of penile adhesions

  • Revision of Mitrofanoff

  • Testicular prostheses implant

  • Ureteral reimplantation for vesicoureteral reflux

  • Ureteroscopy

  • Uroflow, electromyography (EMG) and bladder scan tests

  • Varicocelectomy

We offer a special clinic for children to treat and prevent kidney stones.

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Locations

Locations

We’re here to help — and close to home

We have pediatric urology clinics in Madison, Wis., and several other locations across Wisconsin and Northern Illinois.

    Our care team

    Expertise for your child’s urological needs

    UW Health Kids' highly trained urologists are prepared to care for your child. All have completed a residency in urology and have two to three extra years of training to work with children. Our specialists are experts in minimally invasive treatments and helping kids of all ages regain their health.

    Meet our team

    Resources

    Exercising made easy

    Pelvic floor exercises

    The audio below can you help you as you do the pelvic floor exercises recommended by the UW Health Kids Urology staff.

     Exercising made easy (female narration) (mp3)

     Exercising made easy (male narration) (mp3)



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    UW Health Kids
    Our pediatric experts have served the special needs of children for more than 100 years. We focus on each child’s unique needs and offer social and emotional support to help you and your child face even the most complex condition. Our long history includes the creation of medical advances that save lives around the world. Together, we get your child back to health and enjoying being a kid.
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