Outpatient flexible cystoscopy: an early experience

ABSTRACT

During a period of eighteen months 647 patients underwent diagnostic flexible cystoscopy under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department. 537 [82.9%] patients had normal examination and they were thus spared the trauma of hospital admission, general anaesthesia and tiresome wait on lengthy waiting list. This technique has proved to be a very cost effective alternative to conventional rigid cystoscopy and has very low failure rate [1.23%] and remarkable patient compliance