Disciplines and Occupations

Urology

A surgical specialty concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the urinary tract in both sexes, and the genital tract in the male. Common urological problems include urinary obstruction, URINARY INCONTINENCE, infections, and UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS.

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A surgical specialty concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the urinary tract in both sexes, and the genital tract in the male. Common urological problems include urinary obstruction, URINARY INCONTINENCE, infections, and UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS.

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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specialty

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  1. H02w.403w.810.860w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Urology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014572. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014572
  2. Urology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urology
  3. Urology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105650