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Virtual Operating Room

In the Opterating Room - Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery

Surgical treatments for urological conditions are common. What's not common is seeing how they're done. Are you curious about surgery for prostate and kidney cancer, pelvic organ prolapse or erectile dysfunction, or what it's like to donate a kidney?


Follow Kidney-Preserving Surgery for Kidney Cancer

Partial nephrectomy, or nephron-sparing surgery, completely removes a cancerous kidney tumor while preserving the healthy part of the kidney.
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View a Living Donor Kidney Donation

A minimally invasive procedure for kidney removal has helped increase the number of donations by living kidney donors in the past 10 years. Laparoscopic nephrectomy requires only a few small incisions and a shorter recovery time.
See how it's done



Look Behind the Scenes of Prostate Surgery

Sometimes prostate cancer treatment requires surgery to remove the gland. Prostatectomy, whether performed as a traditional open surgery, a minimally invasive procedure or with the assistance of a robot, can help the hundreds of thousands of men diagnosed with prostate cancer each year.
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See How Penile Prosthesis Can Help with ED

About 30 million American men are coping with erectile dysfunction. While oral medications and non-surgical alternatives are sometimes effective, a penile prosthesis can be the final answer for relief.
Observe the procedure



Watch a Minimally Invasive Repair of Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Millions of women now can benefit from the repair of pelvic organ prolapse without the need for an open abdominal surgery or the removal of the uterus. Cleveland Clinic urologists have developed minimally invasive techniques.
Watch how one is performed