A Maine jury awarded a woman $17 million after a routine surgery for a benign ovarian cyst ended with the accidental removal of her bladder.

The botched surgery triggered a series of additional procedures, including one in which surgeons created a new bladder using tissue from her intestine.

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Urinary diversion surgery creates a new way for urine to exit your body after bladder removal. There are three different surgical options for urinary diversion. Two of them give you control over when ...

Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumor, or TURBT, is a procedure that allows your surgeon to biopsy or remove a tumor from the inside of your bladder while leaving the bladder intact. Because the ...

Deion Sanders is embracing a new normal following his bladder removal surgery last month. The former NFL star was forced to bring a portable toilet to Folsom Field while joining the team he coaches, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deion Sanders health update: Tumor discovery led to removal of bladder for Colorado coach Deion Sanders had his bladder removed ...

A continent urostomy is a type of urinary diversion surgery that may be recommended in cases where your bladder isn’t functioning normally due to injury or disease. Unlike other types of urostomies, ...