Hossam Mohamed Hafez Elawady 1, Wael Ali Maged 1, Mostafa Mabrouk Bayoumi Aly Wahba 2, Ahmed Tawfick Hassan 1, Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud 1
1Urology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
2Urology Department, Air Forces General Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
Stamatios Katsimperis 1, Lazaros Tzelves 1, Georgios Feretzakis 2, Themistoklis Bellos 1, Panagiotis Deligiannis 1, Andreas Skolarikos 1, Athanasios Papatsoris 1, Iraklis Mitsogiannis 1
1Second Department of Urology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sismanogleio Hospital, Athens, 15126, Greece.
2School of Science and Technology, Hellenic Open University, Patras, 26335, Greece.
Carlotta Nedbal 1, Robert Geraghty 2, Pietro Tramanzoli 3, Dario Sessa 4, Vineet Gauhar 5, Andrea Benedetto Galosi 6, Andrea Gregori 7, Bhaskar K Somani 8
1Urology Department, Polytechnic University of Le Marche, Ancona, Italy; Endourology Section, European Association of Urology, Arnhem, The Netherlands; Division of Urology, IRCCS Fondazione San Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Italy. Electronic address:
2Department of Urology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; Urolithiasis Guidelines Panel, European Association of Urology, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
3Urology Department, Polytechnic University of Le Marche, Ancona, Italy; Division of Urology, IRCCS Fondazione San Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Italy.
4Department of Urology, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, Milan, Italy.
5Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore.
6Urology Department, Polytechnic University of Le Marche, Ancona, Italy.
7Division of Urology, IRCCS Fondazione San Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Italy; University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
8University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
Mohammed Ramadhan # 1, Mohammed Alzaid # 2, Tarek Benzouak 3, Arthur Braga 4, Fadl Hamouche 5, Ahmad Almarzouq 6 7
1Department of Surgery, Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital, South Surra, Kuwait.
2Stopford Building, School of Medicine, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK.
3Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
4Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil.
5Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
6Department of Surgery, Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital, South Surra, Kuwait.
7Department of Surgery, Sabah Al-Ahmad Urology Center, Jamal Abdul Nasser St, Sabah Medical Area, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
#Contributed equally.
Mucahit Gelmis 1, Sina Kardas 1, Ali Ayten 1, Oguzhan Cura 1, Serkan Gonultas 1, Mustafa Gokhan Kose 1
1Department of Urology, Gaziosmanpasa Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkiye.
Adam Bobrowski 1, Simon Czajkowski 2, Katherine Lajkosz 1 3, Michael Ordon 1 4, Jason Y Lee 1 5
1Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
3Department of Biostatistics, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
4Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
5Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Gregory E Tasian 1 2, David I Chu 3, Caleb P Nelson 4, W Robert DeFoor 5, Justin B Ziemba 6, Jing Huang 2, Xianqun Luan 2, Michael Kurtz 4, Christina B Ching 7, Pankaj Dangle 8, Anthony J Schaeffer 9, Renea Sturm 10, Wayland Wu 11, Christopher Bayne 12, Nicolas Fernandez 13, Michael E Chua 14, Romano DeMarco 15, Pamela Ellsworth 16, Brian Augelli 1, Jing Bi-Karchin 1, Rebecca D McCune 1, Seth Vatsky 17, Susan Back 17, Zi Wang 2, Hunter Beck 18, Anna Kurth 18, Laura Kurth 18, Annabelle Pleskoff 18, Christopher B Forrest 19, Jonathan S Ellison 20; PKIDS Care Improvement Network; Kyle Rove 21, Scott Sparks 22, Eric Nelson 23, Bruce Schlomer 24, Aaron Krill 25, Ching Man Carmen Tong 26, Abby Taylor 27, Puneeta Ramachandra 28, Andrew Stec 29, Pasquale Casale 30, Douglas Coplen 31, Nicolette Janzen 32, Krystal Bagley 33, Michelle R Denburg 33, Kimberley Dickinson 34, Rosemary Laberee 33, Matt Lorenzo 33, Antoine Selman-Fermin 33, Joana Dos Santos 14, Campbell Grant 35, Kate Kraft 36, Bhalaajee Meenakshi-Sundaram 37
1Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
3Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
4Department of Urology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
5Division of Urology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
6Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
7Department of Pediatric Urology, Kidney and Urinary Tract Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
8Department of Pediatric Urology, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Indiana.
9Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
10Department of Pediatric Urology, Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
11Department of Pediatric Urology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
12Department of Pediatric Urology, Carilion Children's Pediatric Urology, Roanoke, Virginia.
13Division of Pediatric Urology, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington.
14Division of Urology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
15Division of Pediatric Urology, Department of Urology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
16Nemours Children's Hospital, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando.
17Department of Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
18Patient and Family Research Partners, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
19Department of Pediatrics, Applied Clinical Research Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
20Division of Pediatric Urology, Department of Urology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
21Department of Pediatric Urology, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora.
22Division of Urology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
23Division of Urology, Children's Hospital of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
24Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas.
25Department of Urology, Children's National Hospital of Washington, Washington, DC.
26Department of Urology, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
27Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
28Division of Urology, Nemours A. I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware.
29Division of Urology, Nemours Children's Health, Jacksonville, Florida.
30Division of Urology, Nemours Children's Health, Delaware Valley, Wilmington, Delaware.
31Division of Urology, St Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis, Missouri.
32Division of Urology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston.
33Division of Urology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
34Applied Clinical Research Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
35Department of Urology, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
36Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
37Department of Urology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences, Oklahoma City.
Ali Talyshinskii 1 2, Patrick Juliebø-Jones 3 4 2, B M Zeeshan Hameed 5 2, Nithesh Naik 6, Kinju Adhikari 7, Ulanbek Zhanbyrbekuly 1, Lazaros Tzelves 8 2, Bhaskar Kumar Somani 9
1Department of Urology, Astana Medical University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
2EAU Young Academic Urology Urolithiasis Group, Arnhem, Netherlands.
3Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
4Department of Urology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
5Department of Urology, Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
6Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
7Department of Urology, HCG Cancer Centre of Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
8Department of Urology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
9Department of Urology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
Enes Gurun 1, Mesut Ozturk 2, Mustafa Basaran 2
1Department of Radiology, Samsun University Faculty of Medicine, Samsun, Turkey.
2Department of Radiology, Samsun University Faculty of Medicine, Samsun, Turkey.
Seyed Sajjad Tabei 1, Alan Yaghoubian 2, Kymora B Scotland 3
1Urology Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
2Department of Urology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
3Department of Urology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Stefano Moretto 1 2 3, Alberto Quarà 1 2 4, Federico Zorzi 1 2 5, Alejandra Bravo-Balado 1 2, Aideen Madden 1 2, Johan Cabrera 1 2, Mariela Corrales 1 2, Luigi Candela 1 2, Steeve Doizi 1 2, Frederic Panthier 1 2, Olivier Traxer 1 2
1Service d'Urologie, AP-HP, Hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
2GRC n°20, Santé de l'homme, Hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
3Department of Urology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Institute IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
4Department of Oncology, Division of Urology, University of Turin, San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, Orbassano, Italy.
5Urology Clinic, Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
Ran Yang 1, Dan Zhao 1, Chunxue Ye 1, Ming Hu 2, Xiao Qi 2, Zhichao Li 3
1Department of Radiology, Chongqing Western Hospital, No. 301, Huafu Avenue North, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, 400050, China.
2Department of Radiology, Second People's Hospital of Jiu Long Po District, No. 318 Huayu Road, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, 400052, China.
3Department of Radiology, Chongqing Western Hospital, No. 301, Huafu Avenue North, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, 400050, China.
Aseel Eid 1, Ammar Hassouneh 2, Salsabeel Bishawi 3, Aya Milhem 1, Jana Dibas 1, Sondos Baradia 4
1Department of Medicine, An Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.
2Department of Radiology, Hebron Governmental Hospital, Hebron, Palestine.
3Department of Medicine, An Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. Electronic address:
4Department of Medicine, Hebron University, Hebron, Palestine.
María E Garza-Montúfar 1, Hid F Cordero-Franco 2, Carlos M García-Pérez 3, Juan H Díaz-García 4, Brissia Lazalde 5
1Urology Department, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Hospial General de Zona N° 33, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.
2Centro de Investigación Biomédica del Noreste/Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.
3Urology Department, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Unidad de Medicina de Alta Especialidad N° 25, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.
4División de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Facultad de Medicina y Nutrición, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Durango, México.
5Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Medicina y Nutrición, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Durango, Durango, México.
Qibo Hu 1, Hongbo Liu 1, Kai Chen 2, Weifeng Yang 1, Wei Ru 1, Xiang Yan 1
1Department of Urology, Pediatric Urolith Centre, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Centre for Child Health, Hangzhou, China.
2Department of Urology, the First Hospital of Jiaxing & The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, Zhejiang, China.
J Iregui-Parra 1, V Rojas Ossa 2, C M Arias Salazar 1, A D López Estupiñán 3, D Díaz Varela 1, L M Sinisterra Parra 4, L Diéguez 5, E Emiliani 6
1Grupo Colombiano de Investigación en Urología (GCIU), Colombia; Departamento de Epidemiología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Libre, Cali; Grupo Interdisciplinario de Investigación en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (GIESP), Santiago de Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
2Servicio de Urología, Fundación Puigvert, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Departamento de Urología, Hospital del Salvador, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
3Grupo Colombiano de Investigación en Urología (GCIU), Colombia.
4Departamento de Epidemiología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Libre, Cali; Grupo Interdisciplinario de Investigación en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (GIESP), Santiago de Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
5Servicio de Urología, Fundación Puigvert, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
6Servicio de Urología, Fundación Puigvert, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Departamento de Urología, NYU Langone Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Nueva York, NY, United States.
Athanasios Papatsoris 1, Bogdan Geavlete 2, George Daniel Radavoi 3, Mohammed Alameedee 4, Murtadha Almusafer 5, M Hammad Ather 6, Alberto Budia 7, Alin Adrian Cumpanas 8, Murat Can Kiremi 9, Athanasios Dellis 10, Mohamed Elhowairis 11, Juan Antonio Galán-Llopis 12, Petrisor Geavlete 13, Jordi Guimerà Garcia 14, Bernat Isern 15, Viorel Jinga 16, Juan Manuel Lopez 17, Juan Antonio Mainez 18, Iraklis Mitsogiannis 19, Jorge Mora Christian 20, Mohammad Moussa 21, Razvan Multescu 22, Yusuf Oguz Acar 23, Kremera Petkova 24, Adrià Piñero 25, Elenko Popov 26, Maria Ramos Cebrian 27, Stefan Rascu 28, Roswitha Siener 29, Petros Sountoulides 30, Kyriaki Stamatelou 31, Jaffry Syed 32, Alberto Trinchieri 33
1National Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2nd University Urology Clinic, Sismanoglio Hospital, Athens.
2"Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, "Saint John" Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest.
3Clinical Hospital of Urology Prof. Dr. Theodor Burghele, Bucharest.
4Diwaniya Teaching Hospital, Diwaniyah.
5College of Medicine, University of Basrah.
6Urology Department, Aga Khan University, Karachi.
7Urology Department, La Fe University and Polytechnic Hospital, Valencia.
8Department of Urology, Victor Babes¸ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara.
9Department of Urology, Koç University School of Medicine, Istanbul.
102nd Department of Surgery, Aretaieion Academic Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
11London Clinic, London.
12Department of Urology, General University Hospital Dr Balmis, Alicante.
13Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, Bucharest.
14Lithiasis Unit, Urology Department, Son Espases University Hospital, Palma.
15Renal Lithiasis and Pathological Calcification Group (LiRCaP), Research Institute of Health Sciences (IUNICS), University of the Balearic Islands and Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands (IdISBa), Palma .
16Clinical Hospital of Urology Prof. Dr. Theodor Burghele, Bucharest.
17Urology Department, ICNU Barcelona University Clinic Hospital, Barcelona.
18La Paz University Hospital, Madrid.
19National Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2nd University Urology Clinic, Sismanoglio Hospital, Athens.
20Urologia Clínica Bilbao, IMQ Zorrotzaurre University Hospital and Deusto University, Bilbao.
21Faculty of Medicine at Lebanese University, Beirut.
22"Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, "Saint John" Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest.
23Liv Vadistanbul Hospital, Istanbul.
24Department of Urology and Nephrology, Military Medical Academy, Sofia.
25Urology Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona.
26Department of Urology, UMHAT "Tzaritza Yoanna-ISUL", Medical University, Sofia.
27Renal Transplant Unit, La Fe University and Polytechnic Hospital, Valencia.
28Clinical Hospital of Urology Prof. Dr. Theodor Burghele, Bucharest.
29University Stone Center, Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University Hospital, .
301st Urology Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
31"Mesogeios" Nephrology Center, Athens.
32University College Hospital, Galway Clinic and Bons Secours Hospital, Galway.
33CDC Ambrosiana, Cesano Boscone (MI).
F Abd Ali 1, P Vincze 1, T R W Herrmann 2, C Netsch 3, B Becker 3 4, G Hatiboglu 5, R Homberg 6, K Lehrich 7, A Miernik 8, P Olbert 9, D S Schöb 8, J Herrmann 10, J A Gross 11, L Lusuardi 12, Karl-Dietrich Sievert 13
1Universitätsklinik für Urologie, UK-OWL, Campus Klinikum Lippe, Detmold, Deutschland.
2Urologie, Kantonsspital Frauenfeld, Frauenfeld, Schweiz.
3Abteilung für Urologie, Asklepios Klinik Barmbek, Hamburg, Deutschland.
4Klinik für Urologie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Deutschland.
5Klinik für Urologie, SLK-Kliniken Heilbronn GmbH, Heilbronn, Deutschland.
6Klinik für Urologie, Kinderurologie und Uro-Gynäkologie, St. Barbara-Klinik Hamm-Hessen, Hamm, Deutschland.
7Klinik für Urologie, Vivantes Auguste-Viktoria-Klinikum, Berlin, Deutschland.
8Medizinische Fakultät, Klinik für Urologie, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Deutschland.
9BRIXSANA private clinic, Brixen, Italien.
10Klinik für Urologie und Urochirurgie, Universitätsklinkum Mannheim, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Deutschland.
11Asklepios Klinik Barmbek, Hamburg, Deutschland.
12Universitätsklink für Urologie und Andrologie, Paracelsus Medizinische Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Österreich.
13Universitätsklinik für Urologie, UK-OWL, Campus Klinikum Lippe, Röntgenstraße 18, 32756, Detmold, Deutschland
Alberto Quarà 1, Luigi Candela 2, Aideen Madden 1, Mariela Corrales 1, Johan Cabrera 1, Stefano Moretto 1, Eugenio Ventimiglia 3, Frederic Panthier 1, Steeve Doizi 1, Olivier Traxer 1
1Department of Urology, Tenon Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux des Paris, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
2Department of Urology, Tenon Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux des Paris, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Electronic address:
3Division of Experimental Oncology, Unit of Urology, URI, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
Mehmet Demir 1, İsmail Yağmur 2, Osman Dere 3, İbrahim Halil Albayrak 4, Abdulhakim Şengel 5
1Department of Urology, Harran University Faculty of Medicine, Sanliurfa, Turkey.
2Department of Pediatric Urology, Harran University Faculty of Medicine, Sanliurfa, Turkey.
3Department of Radiology, Harran University Faculty of Medicine, Sanliurfa, Turkey.
4Department of Urology, Şanliurfa Training and Research Hospital, Sanliurfa, Turkey.
5Department of Anhestesiology and Reanimation, Harran University Faculty of Medicine, Sanliurfa, Turkey.
Tunahan Ates 1, Ibrahim Halil Sukur 2, Fesih Ok 3, Mehmet Gurkan Arikan 4, Nebil Akdogan 4
1Department of Urology, Defne State Hospital, Hatay, Turkey.
2Department of Urology, Adana City Training and Research Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
3Department of Urology, Adana City Training and Research Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
4Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey.
