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Clinical services and case families

NYU’s current fellowship page reports roughly 600 cases during the year, including approximately 120 urethroplasties, 50 ureteral cases, 150 gender-affirming surgeries, and 250 cases performed with robotic assistance. The published scope also includes genital reconstruction, genitourinary trauma, Peyronie’s disease, prosthetics, and robotic intracorporeal urinary diversion.

The GURS log groups this work into four categories: urethral reconstruction, genital reconstruction, abdominal and pelvic reconstruction, and genitourinary prosthetics. The local case families below map into that required structure.

5.1 Urethral reconstruction

Anterior urethroplasty maps to the GURS urethral reconstruction category. Hypospadias or epispadias repair may map to urethral or genital reconstruction depending on the primary work. Use the current GURS definition rather than the local case title.

5.2 Posterior urethra and VUAS

Posterior urethroplasty maps to the GURS urethral reconstruction category. The current workbook includes pelvic-fracture urethral injury and posterior stenosis from other causes, including radiation, within this case type.

5.3 Ureteral and upper-tract reconstruction

Ureteral reimplantation, Boari flap, ureteroureterostomy, pyeloplasty, ileal ureter, autotransplant, and ureterolysis map to GURS abdominal and pelvic reconstruction.

5.4 Bladder reconstruction and urinary diversion

Non-continent diversion, continent diversion, diversion revision, and abdominal bladder-neck reconstruction or closure map to GURS abdominal and pelvic reconstruction.

5.5 Fistula

Rectourethral, urethrocutaneous, and urethrovaginal fistula repair map to GURS urethral reconstruction. Other fistulas require review against the workbook definition before entry.

5.6 Gender-affirming vaginoplasty and revision

Primary and revision vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty, and neovagina creation map to GURS genital reconstruction.

5.7 Phalloplasty and metoidioplasty

Primary and revision phalloplasty, metoidioplasty, and urethral lengthening map to GURS genital reconstruction. A separate urethral reconstruction performed for a later stricture must be classified by the actual work and the current GURS definitions.

5.8 Prosthetics and incontinence

Artificial urinary sphincter, male sling, female sling or artificial urinary sphincter, penile prosthesis, and other genitourinary prosthesis procedures map to GURS genitourinary prosthetics.