At The White Lily Hospital, highly specialized facilities exist for the management of emergencies and complex surgical problems in infants and children. Paediatric bronchoscopy, cystoscopy, laparoscopy and thoracoscopy, both diagnostic and therapeutic are available.

Cystoscopy
Cystoscopy is a procedure of visual examination of lower urinary tract with a device called cystoscope. It is performed undergeneral anesthesia. Cystoscope is made of an outer metal tube in various thicknesses depending on the age and an inner lens system. Cystoscopy is performed to evaluate the lower urinary tract, to collect sample, to remove stone, to take X-ray in order to monitor upper urinary tract, to treat urinary tract obstructions, to administer medication for the treatment of urine leakage from urinary bladder to kidneys, to investigate connections between the urinary tract and large intestine or to evaluate the connections of female urinary tracts and reproductive tracts and to check the congenital or acquired bladder or tract expansions in urinary tract.

Bronchoscopy
Bronchoscopy is a procedure of visual examination of all respiration tracts starting from throat with a device called bronchoscope. It is performed on children under general anesthesia. Bronchoscope is a device, made of an outer metal tube, an inner lens system that makes front parts visible by refracting the beams of light source with various angles. It is used in order to evaluate respiratory tract, to collect sample, to remove foreign bodies and to examine the connections between respiratory tract and esophagus.

Laparoscopy
Laparoscopy is a procedure of visual examination of intra-abdominal organs with a device called laparoscope which is placed into abdominal cavity. It is performed undergeneral anesthesia. Laparoscope is made of an imaging system that is connected to a lens into the metal tube which is placed into the abdominal cavity. Laparoscopy can be used to diagnose and treat children. Intra-abdominal organ and lymph node biopsies, gall bladder surgeries and certain surgeries of stomach, appendix, intestine, spleen and undescended testis can be performed on children by using laparoscopy.

Thoracoscopy
Thoracoscopy is a procedure of visual examination of thoracic organs with a devicecalled thoracoscope that is placed into the thoracic cavity. It is performed undergeneral anesthesia. Thoracoscope is made of a metal tube placed into the thoracic cavity, a lens placed into the tube and an imaging system that reflects the captured image to the monitor. It can be used to clean pleural effusionsand to relieve the lungs, to remove tumor focuses from lungs or to collect samples from them and from lymph glands developing in the thoracic cavity or lungs and it can also be performed in certain lung and esophagus surgeries.