Illness	Number of cases
Obstructive uropathy and refluxuropathy - Hydronephrosis in obstruction by renal and ureteral calculi - Hydronephrosis in obstruction by ureteral calculi (N13.21)	289
Malignant neoplasm of bladder - Malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of bladder (C67.8)	245
Hyperplasia of prostate (N40)	182
Calculus of kidney and ureter - Calculus of kidney (N20.0)	156
Malignant neoplasm of prostate (C61)	144
Calculus of kidney and ureter - Calculus of ureter (N20.1)	120
Obstructive and reflux uropathy (N13.3)	76
Other disorders of urinary system - Urinary tract infection site not specified (N39.0)	72
Calculus of kidney and ureter - Calculus of kidney with calculus of ureter (N20.2)	61
Other specified abnormalities of plasma proteins (R77.80)	44

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
X-rays of the kidney and urinary tract with contrast medium (3-13d.5)	812
Injection or administration of medicines into the urinary bladder (8-132.3)	800
Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen without contrast medium (3-207)	576
Computed tomography (CT) of the pelvis without contrast medium (3-206)	550
Insertion, exchange or removal of a ureteral stent (8-137.00)	421
Insertion, exchange or removal of a ureteral stent (8-137.10)	389
Surgical incision into the ureter or removal of a stone during an open operation or endoscopy (5-562.9)	294
Surgical incision, removal or destruction of diseased tissue in the urinary bladder, with access through the urethra (5-573.40)	248
Dilatation of the ureters during an operation or endoscopy (5-560.2)	240
Examination of the ureter and the renal pelvis with a tube-shaped instrument with a camera mounted at the end (endoscope) (5-98b.0)	229

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 2200

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ01

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
49	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
42	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
15	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

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Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Dozentur, Lehrauftrag und Prüfungsausschuss mitglied am "BIG" in Essen. Fachbereich Hygiene.
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Regelmäßige Studentenfortbildungen im Rahmen von Famulaturen auf dem Gebiet der Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie. Urologische Famulaturen, PF Ausbildung wird angestrebt.
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	"Telemedizin in der Urologie" mit der Universität Siegen
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Dozent auf dem Gebiet der Unfallchirurgie und Orthopädie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Dozent auf dem Gebiet der Urologie an der MHH (Hannover) und Universität-Duisburg Essen (Universitätsklinikum Essen, Urologie).
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Mitautor "Uroonkologie", "Lehrbuch Urologie, Thieme Verlag", "Palliativ Medizin", Ärzteverlag