Division of Urology Patient Stories

Ali and his family traveled from Dubai to Thailand to Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia, where they finally found confidence and comfort in their care team and the surgical approach.

With cancerous tumors in both kidneys, Raritan’s care team from Oncology, Urology and Radiation collaborated to successfully remove them through a specialized surgical technique.

Chance had fetal surgery to treat a lower urinary tract obstruction. The happy baby returns to CHOP from his home in Brooklyn for urology and nephrology care.

Everett's parents followed their hunch and sought medical care at CHOP, where surgery to remove an extra valve in his urethra, as well as a cyst, saved his life.

Emma was diagnosed with kidney stones at age 6. Now, the teen focuses on preventing stone recurrence with support from CHOP’s Pediatric Kidney Stone Center.

After an unexpected diagnosis of hydronephrosis at 17, Maddie had surgery to remove her kidney at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.