Pall Mall Medical has expert urology consultants on-hand who can guide you through the cystoscopy process, which is used to investigate potential health problems with the bladder.

A cystoscopy is an examination of the inside of the bladder, the organ that stores urine in the body. Depending on your symptoms, you will be offered a flexible or rigid cystoscopy, which is named after the form of cystoscopes that are used in each procedure.

During a flexible cystoscopy, your consultant urologist will use a bendable, tube-like telescope, which is very thin and can be passed up the urethra and into the bladder. A rigid cystoscopy is done using a rod-like instrument with a light and a camera lens at the tip.