Former Professor of Urology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Urology Journal is the only urological journal published in English in Iran that is distributed internationally. It was deemed advisable to review the history of Iranian urology in this journal. Since the history of urology in Iran is inseparably related to Sina Hospital, I tried to gather information on the founda...

It was with some surprise that we read of five letters to the Editor [1–5] authored by the Editors of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, Urology, Urologic Oncology, BJU International, European Urology and the Journal of Urology regarding the recently defined grading system for prostate cancer [6]. For clarification the letter published in the Journal of Urology [1]...

John Anderson, Hein Van Poppel*, Joaquim Bellmunt†, Kurt Miller‡, Jean-Pierre Droz§ and John M. Fitzpatrick¶ Department of Urology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK, *Department of Urology, University Hospital KU Leuven, Belgium, †Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ‡Department of Urology, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin Charité, Berlin,...

Christopher P. Evans *, Frans M.J. Debruyne , Heather Payne , Eduardo Solsona , Pierre Teillac , Andrea Tubaro f Department of Urology, University of California, Sacramento, CA, United States Department of Urology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Department of Urology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom Departme...

Alberto Briganti *, Michael L. Blute , James H. Eastham , Markus Graefen , Axel Heidenreich , Jeffrey R. Karnes , Francesco Montorsi , Urs E. Studer f Department of Urology, Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, NY, USA Martini Clinic, Prostate Cancer C...

Georg C. Hutterer , Alberto Briganti , Felix K.-H. Chun , Andrea Gallina , Patrizio Rigatti , Francesco Montorsi , Pierre I. Karakiewicz * Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada Department of Urology, Graz Medical University, Graz, Austria Department of Urology, Vita-Salute University San Raffaele, Milan, Italy Department of Urolo...

Society for Pediatric Urology 900 Cummings Center, Suite 221-U Beverly, MA 01915 Tel: (978) 927-8330 Fax: (978) 524-8890 E-Mail: [email protected] Volume 26, Number 1 Spring 2004 It is with great pride and pleasure that the Society for Pediatric Urology (SPU) announces the resumption of publication of Dialogues in Pediatric Urology. For twenty-five years Dialogues served the pediatric urology field ...

Abstract An 83-year-old lady presented to the urology department with right flank pain in context of a previously known renal staghorn calculus. On examination, she was found have visible discharging sinus her flank, and calculus had become at skin surface. Non-contrast CT imaging confirmed that eroded through via nephrocutaneous fistula. The stone manually extracted percutaneously on ward, tre...