An
Indiana pouch is a
surgically-created
urinary diversion used to create a way for the body to store and eliminate
urine for patients who have had their
urinary bladders removed as a result of
bladder cancer,
pelvic exenteration,
bladder exstrophy or who are not continent due to a congenital,
neurogenic bladder. This particular urinary diversion results in a
continent reservoir that the patient must catheterize to empty urine. This concept and technique was developed by Drs. Mike Mitchell, Randall Rowland, and Richard Bihrle at Indiana University.