Ileal Conduit Urinary Diversion

An ileal conduit urinary diversion, also called a Bricker ileal conduit, is a surgical technique for urinary diversion and a form of incontinent urostomy in which the ureters are surgically detached from the bladder and connected to an isolated segment of the small intestine, whose end is then brought through an opening in the abdominal wall to form a stoma through which urine drains into an external collection bag. Developed during the 1940s and named after its inventor, Eugene M. Bricker, it is typically performed together with a radical cystectomy to treat invasive bladder cancer, and despite being several decades old it remains one of the most used urinary diversion techniques because of its low complication rate and high patient satisfaction.