Surgery

Outpatient surgery is performed either in our practice in Frankfurt Sachsenhausen or the Ambulatory Surgery Centre of the Klinik Rotes Kreuz (Ambulantes Operationszentrum der  Klinik Rotes Kreuz, Königswarterstr. 16, 60316 Frankfurt am Main, near the Frankfurt Zoo).

Inpatient surgery is performed at the Klinik Maingau vom Roten Kreuz (Scheffelstr. 2-14, 60318 Frankfurt am Main).

 

We specialise in

  • General Urological Surgery: kidney surgery, urinary bladder surgery, ureter surgery, prostate surgery, inguinal hernia surgery, and sterilisations (both for inpatients and outpatients)
  • Video-Endoscopic Surgery of urinary bladder, prostate and ureter: minimally invasive surgery without incision of the urethra
  • Uro-Oncological Surgery
  • ESWL: fragmentation of kidney and ureter stones for inpatients (Klinik Maingau)
  • GreenLight Laser Therapy for enlarged prostate (Klinik Maingau)
  • Rezum Therapy minimal-invasive transurethal water vapour therapy for enlarged prostate (Klinik Maingau)
  • Combined Ureterorenoscopy (flexible URS) and Laser Lithotripsy for treatment of large renal stones
  • Lithotripsy for fragmentation of bladder stones
  • Prostate Cancer Surgery: nerve-sparing prostate surgery/prostatectomy with a small abdominal incision (10cm)
  • TUR Prostate: Transurethral Resection of the Prostate
  • Kidney Cancer Surgery: nephrectomy or organ-sparing (nephron-sparing) removal of kidney tumours
  • Bladder Cancer Surgery
  • TUR Bladder: Transurethral Resection of the Bladder
  • Pyeloplasty
  • Urinary Incontinence Surgery in women and men
    In women, for example, Implants of Tension-free Vaginal Tapes (TVT) or Transobturator Tapes (TOT) for treatment of stress incontinence
  • Photodynamic Fluorescence Cystoscopy for detection and therapy of bladder tumours (also for outpatients)
  • Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL): minimally invasive fragmentation of kidney stones  (key hole surgery) and removal of large renal stones by ‘Mini-PNL’ (minimally invasive percutaneous nephrolitholapaxy)
  • Paediatric Urology (for example circumcisions)
  • Percutaneous Nephrostomy / Suprapubic Cystostomy
  • Urethrotomy especially for the relief of strictures caused by scar tissue
  • Vasectomy