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Rigid Cystoscopy

Email Raji.Kooner@svha.org.au or call 02 8382 6980 for a confidential appointment.

A rigid cystoscopy is an inspection of the bladder with a thin telescope¹.

We insert this telescope in through the penis in males, and the urethra in females, and inspect the bladder.

If we find an abnormality in the bladder, it is easy to do a biopsy where we take a little sample off the tissue and send this for analysis.

A rigid cystoscopy also allows us to treat any abnormalities that we find, such as stones or polyps or tumours.

We can also perform a retrograde pyelogram.

With this, we place a little catheter into the ureteric orifice, which is the tube that comes from the kidney to the bladder.

We inject some dye, and do some x-rays during the procedure to detect any abnormalities in the tube that lines the kidney to the bladder.

So, rigid cystoscopy is a relatively straight forward procedure.

Patients usually have some burning and discomfort, which lasts a day, very rarely longer than that.

If we do some biopsies, you can have some bleeding which may last a day or so.

References

1. Joshua S. Engelsgjerd; Christopher M. Deibert - Cystoscopy - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493180/