Cystoscopy is endoscopy of the urinary bladder performed via the urethra, carried out with an instrument called a cystoscope.
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Origin YearValue is the first demonstration of Nitze's cystoscope. The same source says a Nitze-Leiter cystoscope was first presented on a patient on 9 May 1879, and search summaries cite Bozzini's 1806 Lichtleiter as an earlier precursor, so the origin year depends on definition. Connections
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1. Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystoscopy, lead sectionQuote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystoscopy, lead section
Cystoscopy is endoscopy of the urinary bladder via the urethra.
2. EAU European Museum of Urology: Nitze's Cystoscope
Nitze's first instrumentsQuote, Nitze's first instruments
On October 2, 1877, the 28 year-old Nitze demonstrated, with his co-assistant Alexander Schwede, the first urethroscope and cystoscope
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Who first demonstrated the cystoscope?
Nitze and Schwede, on October 2, 1877.
The European Museum of Urology records that on October 2, 1877, the 28 year-old Maximilian Nitze demonstrated the first urethroscope and cystoscope with his co-assistant Alexander Schwede. Cystoscopy itself is endoscopy of the urinary bladder through the urethra. This entry is history, not medical advice.
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