In addition to routine urologic care for children, we offer a variety of specialty need programs to help children through a variety of related problems. They include:

Stone Disease

Our Stone Diagnostic and Management Center at Nemours Children’s Hospital offers a variety of minimally invasive techniques to manage and treat stones that develop in the bladder and kidney. Using minimally invasive endoscopic and endourologic techniques, we can diagnose and treat your child for stone disease without the need for open surgery. Working in collaboration with medical kidney specialists (nephrologists) at Nemours Children’s Hospital, we can identify the metabolic causes of why stones develop in children and provide an individualized treatment plan to prevent future stone formation.

Bladder Control

Working in collaboration with physicians at the hospital’s Department of Pediatrics, our urologists provide a comprehensive bladder function program for children with bladder control issues, including incontinence (involuntary leakage of urine), and daytime or nighttime wetting (nocturnal or diurnal enuresis). The program combines urotherapy, medical, behavioral, and biofeedback therapies – all oriented for children, using video game therapy to teach about the bladder and the muscles that control urination.

Spina Bifida

We also participate in a multi-specialty clinic for children with Spina Bifida, myelomenigocele, and other spinal cord anomalies. Based at Arnold Palmer Hospital, the clinic gives children with these conditions access to a coordinated team of specialists – including orthopedists, nephrologists, gastroenterologists, neurosurgeons, and urologists – along with nurse managers, physical, occupational, and rehabilitation therapists who manage all of their medical needs in one place.

Disorders of Sexual Differentiation

We provide advanced multidisciplinary care for children with hypospadias, ambiguous genitalia, and other disorders of sexual differentiation. Because these issues often require more than a surgical solution, we treat these conditions in a multidisciplinary manner, coordinating with specialists in endocrinology and behavioral health when necessary.

Minimally invasive surgery program

Our pediatric urology specialists are experts in the use of minimally invasive techniques whenever possible. These include laparoscopic, robot-assisted, and single-site surgery, sometimes offering tiny incisions through the navel, to minimize scarring, promote healing, and speed the recovery process. We can often use these advanced techniques for children with a variety of common issues, including undescended testicle, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, vesicoureteral reflux, and complex kidney stone disease.

Nemours pediatric urologists perform a variety of state-of-the-art surgical interventions for urologic conditions, such as pyeloplasty (correction of kidney obstruction) in infants.

Other procedures include:

• hydrocele surgery and hernia repair
• hypospadias repair
• varicocele correction
• orchiectomy (removal of testis)
• orchidopexy (fastening of an undescended testis inside the scrotum)
• partial and total nephrectomy (kidney removal)
• bladder augmentation (increasing the size of the bladder)
• extrophy repair (closure of the bladder)
• genitor-urinary reconstructive surgery
• circumcision
• correction of disorders of sexual differentiation (ambiguous genitalia)

We offer special testing, including video fluoroscopic urodynamic testing and non-invasive uroflowmetry. We can also perform many surgical procedures in children by minimally invasive laparoscopic single port techniques, and robot-assisted surgery utilizing the DaVinci robot platform. Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is performed through tiny incisions (keyhole surgery) that help reduce scarring and result in faster recovery times for kids.

Other benefits of minimally invasive surgery include:

• smaller incisions
• smaller scars
• faster healing time
• less pain
• shorter hospital stays

You’ll feel right at home in one of our private patient rooms designed with input from families who know what it’s like to have a child in the hospital.

Our large, comfortable, single-patient rooms have sleeping accommodations for two parents, a private bathroom, wireless internet access, connections for DVD players and game systems, and two flat-screen TVs.

Other in-room features include:

• full floor-to-ceiling windows for natural light
• refrigerator for family meals and snacks
• wardrobe storage for personal items and a hotel-style safe
• GetWellNetwork interactive television is uniquely based on your child’s age, medical condition and more, and allows your child to watch TV, surf the web, check e-mail, play music and games, and learn about your Nemours health care team

Our “hospital within a garden” setting features many places for you and your family to go for fresh air and relaxation, including a one-acre interactive sensory discovery garden or one of our rooftop gardens on the second and fourth floors.

We have many more comforts and amenities, like:

• complimentary valet and parking
• kid-friendly commons areas for siblings
• café coffee shop
• non-denominational chapel
• concierge services

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If your child needs medical imaging, we offer some of the area’s most advanced pediatric radiology services here on campus at Nemours
Children’s Hospital.

Our unique services include:

• interventional radiology: Our team of experts uses image-guidance to diagnose and treat diseases and tumors throughout the body. Certain conditions that previously required open surgery can now be treated by Nemours pediatric interventional radiologists. We are very fortunate to have the only dual-trained pediatric diagnostic and interventional radiologist in the state.
• neuroradiological, cardiovascular, and fetal MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) imaging: Our subspecialty-trained pediatric radiologists see children with complex conditions who require this highly specialized imaging.
• Central Florida’s only 256-slice Brilliance iCT Scanner: We are one of only a handful of children’s hospitals in the country to have this latest generation CAT (or CT) scanner that scans faster than most machines and produces excellent images in a much shorter time with much less radiation exposure for the child.

Our team of board-certified pediatric radiologists and pediatric radiologic technologists are experts in the safe medical imaging of children of every age, even newborns.

We have also pledged our commitment to the “Image Gently” campaign of the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging, which is increasing awareness of the opportunities to promote radiation protection in the imaging of children.

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If your child has a complex or chronic condition we encourage you to take advantage of KidsTRACK, a unique service of Nemours Children’s Hospital. Located on the 1st floor of our hospital, KidsTRACK is designed to help families cope by providing expert assistance and information on all aspects of your child’s care even before you leave our hospital or clinic.

A KidsTRACK care coordinator is available during every step of diagnosis, treatment, and healing — helping your family make a smooth transition from Nemours Children's Hospital to home. Your coordinator works alongside the nursing/case managers in our subspecialty areas and acts as a single point of contact connecting you to medical and community resources.

Simply ask your physician for a referral to KidsTRACK
or call (407) 650-7715.

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