OBJECTIVE The aim of this research was to study the trends in authorship and type of article in European and North American journals of urology over the past 6 decades. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using a self-developed Visual Basic program, the number of authors per article and the type of article in four European journals (BJU International, Current Opinion in Urology, European Urology and Urolog...

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Professor Jay Simhan (Figure 1) is Director of Urologic Trauma, Reconstruction and Prosthetics for the Fox Chase/ Einstein Urologic Institute and an Assistant Professor of Urology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He is a member of the American Urologic Association, the Mid-Atlantic section of the AUA, the Philadelphia ...

Urology has increasingly become a technology-driven specialty. The advent of robotic surgical systems in the past 10 years has led to urologists becoming the world leaders in the use of such technology. In this paper, we review the history and current status of robotic technology in urology. From the earliest uses of robots for transurethral resection of the prostate, to robotic devices for man...

(1) Stomatology Professor, Valencia School of Medicine, and Head of the Stomatology Service in the Valencia General Hospital (2) Senior Consultant in Hematology, Barcelona Clinical Hospital (3) Urology Registrar, Urology Service, Granada “Virgen de las Nieves” Hospital (4) Head of the Medical Oncology Service in the Pontevedra “Montecelo” Hospital (5) Hematology Registrar, Hematology Service, S...

INTRODUCTION Smartphones are increasingly playing a role in healthcare and previous studies assessing medical applications (apps) have raised concerns about lack of expert involvement and low content accuracy. However, there are no such studies in Urology. We reviewed Urology apps with the aim of assessing the level of participation of healthcare professionals (HCP) and scientific Urology assoc...

Title: Versican Promotes Tumor Progression, Metastasis and Predicts Poor Prognosis in Renal 1 Carcinoma 2 Authors: Yozo Mitsui, Hiroaki Shiina, Taku Kato, Shigekatsu Maekawa, Yutaka Hashimoto, 3 Marisa Shiina, Mitsuho Imai-Sumida, Priyanka Kulkarni, Pritha Dasgupta, Ryan Kenji Wong, 4 Miho Hiraki, Naoko Arichi, Shinichiro Fukuhara, Soichiro Yamamura, Shahana Majid, Sharanjot 5 Saini, Guoren Den...

context randomized controlled trials (rcts) are important tools for evidence-based health care decisions. it is, therefore, important that they be conducted and reported with the highest possible standards. the aim of this study was to evaluate the reporting quality of the rcts published in nephrology urology monthly journal and to examine whether there was a change over time in the reporting q...

Innovations in diagnostic techniques due to the introduction of endoscopy, and the development in X-ray technology were fundamental in lessening dependence on surgery, and for urology to be recognised as a new discipline. Afterwards, endoscopic surgery came to the fore. Urology in Lemberg, The aim of the study is to present the development of urology in Lemberg as an independent speciality, and...

Dear colleagues, I would like to congratulate the editorial team of the Arab Journal of Urology, the official journal of the Arab Association of Urology. In particular I would like to acknowledge the enormous contribution that Professor Shokeir has made in assembling this team for this important journal. He has also encouraged several key leaders in urology to be involved in the international e...