About 200.000 patients with various nosologies get medical treatment at The University Hospital of Cologne annually. 23 clinics of various specialisations are united there. Due to the quality of health services, doctors' professionalism and the staff's friendliness, the clinic has found the well-deserved love of our patients.

The following clinics are especially known:

• The general surgery clinic under the direction of Professor Hölsher is known for its development in the minimally invasive surgery field. Even such technically difficult operations as a stomach and gullet resection are carried out by an endoscopic way.

• The orthopaedic clinic under the direction of Professor Esel was one of the first in the world that has entered minimally invasive hip prosthetics.

• The cardiologic centre under the direction of Professor Valers carries out all known kinds of diagnostics and treatment for heart diseases. There you can choose between invasive and virtual coronarography. Since 1977 coronary angioplasty of heart vessels has been carried out at the clinic daily and it has become a routine.

The clinic includes three departments:

• Department A

• Department B

• Polyclinic department

• The one-day hospital for outpatients having chemotherapy

The clinic specialization is

• Urological oncology

• Andrology

• Children's urology

• Dysfunction of sexual sphere

Medical spectrum of the clinic is:

• Tumor therapy

• Transurethral resection

• Radical surgical removal of cysts

• Chemotherapy of metastasizing tumors

Kidneys

• Tumor surgical removal while preserving the kidney

• Radical operations of ingrown tumors

• Immune therapy of metastasizing tumors

Testicles

• Metastasis resection of big vessels

• Chemotherapy of metastasizing tumors

Prostate

• Radical operations preserving nerve-ending and erection (including by a laparoscopic way)

• Hormonal therapy (androgenic blockade) by progressing tumors

• Endoscopic operations of benign tumors of the prostate by means of the laser and electric ligature

• Outpatient microwave and thermal therapy of benign tumors of the prostate

Endoscopic operations

• Transurethral resection of the bladder

• Transurethral resection of the prostate

• Cystoscopy for tumor diagnostics

• Surgical removal of kidney stones by means of the laser

• Laparoscopy for varicocele treatment

• Surgical removal of kidney tumors and in certain cases of prostate carcinoma

Moreover:

• Urological functional diagnostics

• Videourodynamics

• Children's urology

• Andrology

• Treatment for impotence

• Sterilization

• Prosthetics of the penis