Urology
Volume 71, Issue 3 , Pages 367-371 , March 2008

What Happens to the Abstracts Presented at the Societè Internationale d’Urologie Meeting?

  • Riccardo Autorino

      Affiliations

    • Clinica Urologica, Seconda Universitá degli Studi, Napoli, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Riccardo Autorino, M.D., Ph.D., F.E.B.U., Clinica Urologica, Policlinico SUN, Piazza Miraglia 80138, Napoli, Italy.
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  • Giuseppe Quarto

      Affiliations

    • Clinica Urologica, Seconda Universitá degli Studi, Napoli, Italy
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  • Giuseppe Di Lorenzo

      Affiliations

    • Clinica Urologica, Seconda Universitá degli Studi, Napoli, Italy
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  • Francesco Giugliano

      Affiliations

    • Clinica Urologica, Seconda Universitá degli Studi, Napoli, Italy
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  • Carmelo Quattrone

      Affiliations

    • Clinica Urologica, Seconda Universitá degli Studi, Napoli, Italy
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  • Fabio Neri

      Affiliations

    • Clinica Urologica, Seconda Universitá degli Studi, Napoli, Italy
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  • Renato De Domenico

      Affiliations

    • Cattedra di Urologia, Universitá Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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  • Domenico Sorrentino

      Affiliations

    • Cattedra di Urologia, Universitá Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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  • Salvatore Mordente

      Affiliations

    • Clinica Urologica, Seconda Universitá degli Studi, Napoli, Italy
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  • Rocco Damiano

      Affiliations

    • Cattedra di Urologia, Universitá Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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  • Marco De Sio

      Affiliations

    • Clinica Urologica, Seconda Universitá degli Studi, Napoli, Italy

Received 4 September 2007 ,Accepted 8 November 2007.

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PII: S0090-4295(07)02398-9

doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.028

Urology
Volume 71, Issue 3 , Pages 367-371 , March 2008

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