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Official Journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology - SBU
Official Journal of the Thai Urological Association - TUA

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Francisco Sampaio
Urogenital Research Unit
State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL EDITOR

Luciano A. Favorito
State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Geraldo de Campos Freire
Brazil
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Miguel Srougi
Latin America
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Wachira Kochakarn
Asia
Bangkok, Thailand

Mark S. Soloway
United States
Miami, FL, USA

Claude C. Schulman
European Countries
Brussels, Belgium

VIDEO SECTION

EDITOR

Philippe E. Spiess
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, USA

WEBMASTER - Video Section
Tariq Hakki
Univ. of South Florida
Tampa, FL, USA

CONSULTING EDITORS

Erik Busby
University of Alabama
Birmingham, AL, USA

Rafael Carrion
Univ. of South Florida
Tampa, Florida, USA

Jose J. Correa
Ces University
Medellin, Columbia

Karim Kader
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Wassim Kassouf
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Wade J. Sexton
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, USA

Shahrokh Shariat
Cornell University
New York, NY, USA

A.J. Stephenson
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA

Hubert Swana
Nemours Children’s Clinic
Orlando, Florida, USA

ASSISTANT MEDICAL EDITOR

Richard Medeiros
Rouen University Hospital, France

CONSULTING EDITORS

Urological Survey Committee

Athanase Billis
State University Campinas
Campinas, SP, Brazil

Andreas Bohle
Helios Agnes Karll Hospital
Bad Schwartau, Germany

Steven Brandes
Washington Univ St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Sean P. Elliott
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Fernando Kim
University of Colorado
Denver, CO, USA

Manoj Monga
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA

Steven P. Petrou
Mayo Medical School
Jacksonville, FL, USA

Adilson Prando
Vera Cruz Hospital
Campinas, SP, Brazil

M. Chad Wallis
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Laparoscopic & Minimally Invasive Surgery Committee

Clement C. Abbou Ctr Hosp Univ Henri Mondor Creteil, France Cassio Andreoni Federal Univ of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil Jeffrey A. Cadeddu Univ of Texas Southwestern Dallas, Texas, USA Lisias N. Castilho Catholic University Campinas, SP, Brazil Ralph V. Clayman Univ California Irvine Med Ctr Orange, California, USA Inderbir S. Gill USC Keck Sch of Medicine Los Angeles, CA, USA	Anuar I. Mitre University of Sao Paulo, USP Sao Paulo, Brazil Stephen Y. Nakada University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA Jens Rassweiler University of Heidelberg Heilbronn, Germany Mauricio Rubinstein Federal University State RJ Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil M. Tobias-Machado ABC Medical School Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Endourology & Lithiasis Committee
Monish Aron Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH, USA John Denstedt University of Western Ontario London, ON, Canada Evangelos N. Liatsikos University of Patras Patras, Greece Bannakij Lojanapiwat Chiang Mai University Chiang Mai, Thailand	Margaret S. Pearle Univ of Texas Southwestern Dallas, Texas, USA Glenn M. Preminger Duke University Medical Ctr Durham, NC, USA N. Rodrigues Netto Jr State University of Campinas Campinas, SP, Brazil Arthur D. Smith Long Island Jewish Med Ctr New Hyde Park, NY, USA
Urological Oncology Committee
Lennart Andersson Karolinska Institute & WHO Stockholm, Sweden Matthew C. Biagioli Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida, USA Joseph L. Chin University of Western Ontario London, ON, Canada Marcos F. Dall’Oglio University of Sao Paulo, USP Sao Paulo, Brazil Simon Horenblas Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fernand Labrie Laval University Med Ctr Quebec, Canada Judd W. Moul Duke University Med Ctr Durham, NC, USA Luciano J. Nesrallah Federal Univ of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil	Alan M. Nieder University of Miami Sch Med Miami Beach, FL, USA Antonio A. Ornellas National Cancer Institute Rio de Janeiro, RJ J. Edson Pontes Wayne State University Detroit, MI, USA Julio Pow-Sang Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida, USA Leonardo O. Reis State University of Campinas Campinas, SP, Brazil Philippe E. Spiess Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida, USA Sittiporn Srinualnad Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital Bangkok, Thailand
Prostatic Diseases & Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Committee
John M. Fitzpatrick Mater Misericordiae Hospital Dublin, Republic of Ireland Franklin C. Lowe Columbia University New York, NY, USA	Jae-Seung Paick Seoul National University Hospital Seoul, Korea Kriangsak Prasopsanti Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand
Neurourology & Female Urology Committee
Fernando G. Almeida Federal Univ of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil João Luiz Amaro Paulista University, Unesp Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil Homero Bruschini University of Sao Paulo, USP Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Michael B. Chancellor William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI, USA Christopher R. Chapple Royal Hallashire Hospital Sheffield, United Kingdom Roger R. Dmochowski Vanderbilt University Sch Med Nashville, Tennessee, USA	Philippe Grise Rouen University Hospital Rouen, France Hann-Chorng Kuo Buddhist Tzu Chi Sch Med Hualien, Taiwan Paulo Palma State University of Campinas Campinas, SP, Brazil Monthira Tanthanuch Prince of Songkla University, Haad Yai, Thailand Jose Carlos Truzzi Federal University of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, SP
Urogenital Trauma Committee
Jack W. McAninch Univ California San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA Allen F. Morey Brooke Army Medical Center Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA	Richard A. Santucci Wayne State University Detroit, MI, USA
Reconstructive Urology Committee
Guido Barbagli Ctr Urethral & Genitalia Surgery Arezzo, Italy Sean P. Elliott University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA Andre G. Cavalcanti Souza Aguiar Hospital Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Massimo Lazzeri Casa di Cura Santa Chiara Florence, Italy Salvador Vilar C. Lima Federal Univ of Pernambuco Recife, PE, Brazil	M. Manoharan University of Miami Sch Med Miami, FL, USA Karl-Dietrich Sievert University of Tuebingen Tuebingen, Germany Arnulf Stenzl University of Tuenbingen Tuebingen, Germany E. R. Zungri Telo Povisa Medical Center Vigo, Spain
Infections in Urology Committee
Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen Aarhus University Hospital Aarhus, Denmark	Anthony J. Schaeffer Northwestern University Chicago, IL, USA
Renal Transplantation & Renovascular Surgery Committee
Alexandre L. Furtado Coimbra University Hospital Coimbra, Portugal	Wojtek Rowinski Univ of Warmia and Mazury Olsztyn, Poland
Erectile Dysfunction & Andrology Committee
Joaquim A. Claro Federal Univ of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil Sidney Glina H. Ellis Institute Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Luca Incrocci Erasmus Mc-Daniel Cancer Ctr Rotterdam, The Netherlands	Ernani L. Rhoden Federal Foundation of Med Sci RS, Brazil Ahmed I. El-Sakka Suez Canal University Sch Med Ismailia, Egypt
Infertility Committee
Ashok Agarwal Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, USA Agnaldo P. Cedenho Federal Univ of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Harris M. Nagler Albert Einstein College Med New York, NY, USA	Sergio Oehninger Eastern Virginia Med Sch Norfolk, VA, USA Paul J. Turek Univ California San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA Wolfgang Weidner Justus-Liebig Univ Giessen Giessen, Germany
General Urology Committee
Sami Arap Univ of Sao Paulo, USP Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil C. F. Heyns University of Stellenbosch Tygerberg, South Africa A. Marmo Lucon Univ of Sao Paulo, USP Sao Paulo, Brazil Antonio C. Martins State Univ of Sao Paulo Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil K. Mutaguchi Hiroshima University Med Sci Hiroshima, Japan	Valdemar Ortiz Federal Univ of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Athanasios Papatsoris Univ of Athens, Sismanoglio Hospital Athens, Greece Patrizio Rigatti San Raffaelle Scientific Inst Milan, Italy P. Van-Cangh Cliniques Univ Saint-Luc Brussels, Belgium
Pediatric & Fetal Urology Committee
Laurence Baskin Univ California San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA Boris Chertin Shaare Zedek Med Ctr Jerusalem, Israel Francisco T. Denes University of Sao Paulo, USP Sao Paulo, Brazil F. Hadziselimovic Ktk-Kindertagesklinik Liestal, Switzerland Barry A. Kogan Albany Medical College Albany, NY, USA	Antonio Macedo Jr Federal Univ of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Eugene Minevich Univ of Cincinnati Med Ctr Cincinnati, OH, USA J. L. Pippi Salle University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada Feridun Cahit Tanyel Hacettepe Univ Sch Medicine Ankara, Turkey Seppo Taskinen Helsinki University Helsinki, Finland
Urological Pathology Committee
A. Lopez-Beltran Cordoba University Sch Med Cordoba, Spain Liang Cheng Indiana University Sch Medicine Indianapolis, IN, USA Jonathan I. Epstein The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA	Katia R. Leite University of Sao Paulo, USP Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Rodolfo Montironi Polytechnic Univ of Marche Region Ancona, Italy
Uroradiology & Interventional Radiology Committee
William H. Bush University Washington Med Ctr Seattle, Washington, USA Wilfrido Castaneda University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA Ferdinand Frauscher Medical University Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria Erich K. Lang SUNY Downstate Medical School Brooklyn, New York, USA	Arthur T. Rosenfield Yale University Sch Medicine New Haven, CT, USA Renan Uflacker Medical Univ South Carolina Charleston, SC, USA A. C. Westphalen University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA
Basic Science & Investigative Urology Committee
Serge Carreau Univ of Caen Basse-Normandie Caen, France Luiz E. M. Cardoso State Univ of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Waldemar S. Costa State Univ of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Vincent Delmas Universite Rene Descartes Paris, France	Donna M. Peehl Stanford University Sch Med Stanford, CA, USA Marco Pereira-Sampaio Fluminense Federal University Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Luiz F. Poli de Figueiredo Federal Univ of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Nestor Schor Federal Univ of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

FORMER EDITORS

Alberto Gentile (Founder)
(1975 - 1980)

Lino L. Lenz
(1981)

Rubem A. Arruda
(1982 - 1983)

G. Menezes de Góes
(1984 - 1985)

Sami Arap
(1986 - 1987)

N. Rodrigues Netto Jr
(1988 - 1993)

Sami Arap
(1994 - 1997)

Sérgio D. Aguinaga
(1998 - 1999)

Francisco J. B. Sampaio
(2000 - )

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The International Braz J Urol, ISSN: 1677-5538 (printed version) and ISSN: 1677-6119 (electronic version) is the Official Journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology– SBU and of the Thai Urological Association - TUA, has a circulation of 6,000 copies per issue and is published 6 times a year (bimonthly, starting in January - February).
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