LAPAROSCOPIC TREATMENT OF A LARGE BLADDER DIVERTICULUM
*A. Tmiri, M. Elbadr, A. Moataz, M. Dakir, A. Debbagh and R. Aboutaieb
ABSTRACT
Bladder diverticula represent a rare pathology, most often asymptomatic, prostatic pathology remains the major cause of acquired diverticula, hence the male predominance of this pathology. The complications of this clinical entity are secondary to a lack of bladder emptying following the hernia of the bladder wall through the detrusor dominated by urinary tract infection, bladder stones, disorders of the lower urinary tract which poses the indication surgical. Surgical treatment can be performed endoscopically for small diverticula and by open surgery or laparoscopically for large diverticula. We report a case of a large bladder diverticulum surgically treated by laparoscopy.
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