cystostomy

In 1864 he was the first person to describe a surgical treatment for stress incontinence which involved a suprapubic cystostomy procedure.

Fuller underwent a suprapubic cystostomy in July 1940 (probably an outcome of excessive drinking) but continued to require medical treatment.

It was originally designed for suprapubic cystostomy (drainage of urine from the bladder through the skin, bypassing the urethra).

Vesicostomy (cystostomy)

In acute urinary retention, urinary catheterization, placement of a prostatic stent or suprapubic cystostomy relieves the retention.

The suprapubic cystostomy (spelled "cystotomy", without the "s") is a specialty of the fictional physician Stephen Maturin in Patrick O'Brian's twenty-one volume series on the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era.

A suprapubic cystostomy (also known as a vesicostomy or epicystostomy) is a surgically created connection between the urinary bladder and the skin which is used to drain urine from the bladder in individuals with obstruction of normal urinary flow.