urinary diversion
Description
A surgical procedure to make a new pathway for urine to leave the body. It is redirected away from the bladder into a pouch that the surgeon creates from a piece of the person’s small intestine.
A urinary diversion may be used after the bladder and urethra are removed, or if a tumour blocks the normal flow of urine through the bladder.
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