Dr. Richard C Rink MD
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
702 Barnhill Dr Suite 4230 Indianapolis IN, 46202About
Dr. Richard Rink practices Pediatric Urology in Indianapolis, IN. Pediatric urologists treat young patients who suffer from an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder. As a pediatric urologist, Dr. Rink is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Rink performs include surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract, hypospadias, and disorders of sex development; surgery for groin conditions in childhood; evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease; and surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis.
Education and Training
In Univ Sch of Med, Indianapolis In 1978
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Congenital dorsal penile curvature: a potential problem of the long phallus.
- Bladder augmentation. Options, outcomes, future.
- alpha-Adrenergic blockade in children with neuropathic and nonneuropathic voiding dysfunction.
- The gastrointestinal composite urinary reservoir in patients with myelomeningocele and exstrophy: long-term metabolic followup.
- Concealed penis in childhood: a spectrum of etiology and treatment.
- Repair of hypospadias complications using the previously utilized urethral plate.
- Appendicovesicostomy and newer alternatives for the Mitrofanoff procedure: results in the last 100 patients at Riley Children's Hospital.
- Inadvertent concentrated epinephrine injection at newborn circumcision: effect and treatment.
- Nephrostomy tube drainage with pyeloplasty: is it necessarily a bad choice?
- Vaginal stenosis and hydrometrocolpos: late complication of inadvertent perivaginal placement of an artificial urinary sphincter in prepubertal girls(1).
- Abdominal wall hernia: an uncommon complication of in utero vesicoamniotic shunt placement.
- Genitourinary rhabdomyosarcoma. Treatment options.
- Ureterocele prolapse-rare presentation in an adolescent girl.
- Multi-institutional experience with the gastrointestinal composite reservoir.
- Percutaneous cystolithotomy in the pediatric augmented bladder.
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