In an age of major and rapid progress in surgical and medical technology, the main concern of members of the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (I.M.M.) urology team is not to dissociate the patient from his disease by simply providing technical know-how.
Doctors and surgeons and their assistants work together and share their experience.
What’s Urology ?
Urology is the medical and surgical specialty which deals with diseases of the male and female urinary tract and the male genital apparatus.
Urological procedures have been performed since the dawn of time (catheterization and removal of bladder stones since antiquity), the first independent surgical specialty chair was created in 1896 for the urologist Félix GUYON. The Association Française d'Urologie (A.F.U.) (French Urological Association) was founded the same year.
Urology has advanced considerably over the last century, extending its field of action to many areas, such as organ transplantation, bladder replacement in cancer, development of treatments for impotence and male infertility, development of urological oncology, consisting of the development of surgical treatments as well as medical advances and gene therapy.
The urological team is specialized in the treatment of prostate, kidney, bladder and testis cancers in collaboration with Institut Gustave Roussy and Institut Curie.
Academic role
The department is affiliated with the Paris-Descartes University.
The team has the greatest world experience in the laparoscopic surgery for cancer. He was the second team after the Lyon’s team to use the focused ultrasounds (HIFU) to treat prostate cancer and actually developed a brachytherapy protocole
European Scool of Surgery
The Europeen School of Surgery, affiliated to the Paris-Descartes University, is devoted to train surgeon in laparoscopic surgery.
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