The International Braz J Urol is the Official Journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology (BSU), has a circulation of 6,000 copies per issue and is published 6 times a year (bimonthly, starting in January - February).

The International Braz J Urol is an oficialpublication of the Brazilian Society of Urology. It was founded in 1975 by a group of urologists, effective members of BSU, as an oficialway for cientific spread, since then it never stoped been bimonthly published.

Its abbreviated title is Int. Braz J Urol., and it should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic strips.

The International Braz J Urol is indexed by:

• PubMed/MEDLINE,
• Index Medicus - NLM,
• EMBASE/Excerpta Medica;
• SciELO,
• Lilacs/Latin America Index;
• Free Medical Journals;
• MD-Linx;
• Catálogo Latindex; etc.

Brazilian Society of Urology

The paper on which the International Braz J Urol is printed meets the requirements of  ANSI/NISO Z39, 48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). Printed on acid-free paper.

The International Braz J Urol is partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology; National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ) and CAPES.

Luciano A. Favorito, MD, PhD
Unidade de Pesquisa Urogenital, Univ. do Est. do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ,
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Francisco J. B. Sampaio, MD, PhD
Unidade de Pesquisa Urogenital, Univ. do Est. do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

Sidney Glina, MD, PhD
Disciplina de Urologia, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP. Brasil

• Anuar I. Mitre
  Universidade de São Paulo – USP, SP, Brasil

• Cristiano Mendes Gomes
  Hospital de Clínicas da Univ. de São Paulo
  São Paulo, SP, Brasil

• Fábio C. M. Torricelli
  Hosp. das Clínicas da Fac. de Medicina da USP
  São Paulo, SP, Brasil
• José de Bessa Jr.
  Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
  Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil

• Leonardo O. Reis
  Universidade de Campinas – Unicamp, SP, Brasil

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

• Sandro Esteves
  Androfert, SP, Brasil

• Stênio de Cássio Zequi
  Divisão de Urologia, AC Camargo Cancer Center – Fund. Prudente, SP, Brasil

José Murillo Bastos Netto
Univ. Federal de Juiz de Fora – UFJF Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.

Ronaldo H. Baroni
Hosp. Albert Einstein São Paulo, Brasil.

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

• lexandre Danilovic
  Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP
  São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• Cássio Riccetto
  Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP
  Campinas, SP, Brasil
   
• Eliney Ferreira Faria
  Hospital do Cancer de Barretos
  Barretos, SP, Brasil
   
• Felipe Lott
  Instituto Nacional do Câncer – INCA
  Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
   
• Fernando Maluf
  Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo
  São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• Gustavo Cardoso Guimarães
  A. C. Camargo Cancer Center, Fundação Prudente
  São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• João Paulo Martins Carvalho
  Hospital Federal Cardoso Fontes
  Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
   
• Marcelo Wroclawski
  Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
  São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• Márcio Augusto Averbeck
  Hospital Moinhos de Vento
  Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
   
• Marcos Giannetti Machado
  Hospital das Clínicas da USP
  São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• Rodrigo Barros de Castro
  Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF
  Niterói, RJ, Brasil
   
• Rodrigo Ribeiro Vieiralves
  Hospital Federal da Lagoa
  Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
   
• Valter Javaroni
  Hospital Federal do Andaraí
  Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

• A. Lopez-Beltran
  Universidad de Córdoba Sch Med Cordoba, España
   
• A.J. Stephenson
  Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH, USA
   
• Adilson Prando
  Vera Cruz Hospital Campinas, SP, Brasil
   
• Ahmed I. El-Sakka
  Suez Canal University Sch Med Ismailia, Egypt
   
• Alan M. Nieder
  Columbia University Miami Beach, FL, USA
   
• Alexandre L. Furtado
  Universidade de Coimbra e Hospital Coimbra, Portugal
   
• Allen F. Morey
  University. Texas SW Med. Ctr. Dallas, Texas, USA
   
• Andre G. Cavalcanti
  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
   
• Andreas Bohle
  Helios Agnes Karll Hospital Bad Schwartau, Germany
   
• Andrew J. Stephenson
  Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological, OH, USA
   
• Ari Adamy Jr.
  Hospital Santa Casa de Curitiba
  Curitiba, PR, Brasil
   
• Arie Carneiro
  Hospital Albert Einstein
   
• Anthony J. Schaeffer
  Northwestern University Chicago, IL, USA
   
• Antonio C. L. Pompeo
  Escola de Medicia do ABC, SP, Brasil
  
   
• Antonio C. Westphalen
  University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA
   
• Antonio Corrêa Lopes Neto
  Escola de Medicina do ABC, SP, Brasil
   
• Antonio Macedo Jr.
  Universidade Federal de São Paul, SP, Brazil
   
• Arthur T. Rosenfield
  Yale University Sch Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
   
• Ashok Agarwal
  Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, USA
   
• Athanase Billis
  Universidade de Campinas, Unicamp, SP, Brasil
   
• Athanasios Papatsoris
  University of Athens, Sismanoglio Hospital Athens, Greece
• Barry A. Kogan
  Albany Medical College Albany, NY, USA
   
• Boris Chertin
  Shaare Zedek Med Ctr Jerusalem, Israel
   
• Bruno Marroig
  Instituto D´or de Ensino, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
   
• Carlos Arturo Levi D’ancona
  Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brasil
   
• Daniel G. DaJusta
  Wayne State University
  Detroit, MI, USA
   
• Daniel Hampl
  Hospital Municipal Souza Aguiar
  Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
   
• Diogo Benchimol De Souza
  Univ. Estadual do Rio de Janeiro – Uerj, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
   
• Donna M. Peehl
  Stanford University Sch Med Stanford, CA, USA
   
• Erik Busby
  University of Alabama Birmingham, AL, USA
   
• Ernani L. Rhoden Federal
  Hospital Moinhos de Vento, RS, Brasil
   
• Eugene Minevich
  University of Cincinnati Med Ctr Cincinnati, OH, USA
   
• Evangelos N. Liatsikos
  University of Patras Patras, Greece
   
• F. Hadziselimovic
  Ktk-Kindertagesklinik Liestal, Switzerland
   
• Fabio Pasqualotto
  Universidade de Caxias do Sul, RS, Brasil
   
• Ferdinand Frauscher
  Medical University Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria
   
• Fernando G. Almeida
  Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• Fernando Kim
  University of Colorado, Denver CO, USA
   
• Fernando Korkes
  Faculdade de Medicina do ABC Santo André, SP, Brasil
   
• Fernando Pires Vaz
  Hosp. Serv. do Est. do Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil
   
• Flavio Trigo Rocha
  Escola de Medicina da USP, SP, Brasil
   
• Francisco T. Denes
  Universidade de São Paulo, USP, Sao Paulo, Brasil
   
• Franklin C. Lowe
  Columbia University New York, NY, USA
   
• Glenn M. Preminger
  Duke University Medical Ctr Durham, NC, USA
   
• Guido Barbagli
  Ctr Uretrale e Genitali Chirurgia Arezzo, Italia
   
• Gustavo Carvalhal
  Pontifícia Universidade Católica RS, Brasil
   
• Gustavo Cavalcanti Wanderley
  Hospital Estadual Getúlio Vargas Recife, PE, Brasil
   
• Hann-Chorng Kuo
  Buddhist Tzu Chi Sch Med Hualien, Taiwan
   
• Herney A. Garcia-Perdomo
  Universidad del Valle Cali, CO
   
• Homero Bruschini
  Universidade de São Paulo, USP, SP, Brasil
   
• Hubert Swana
  Nemours Children’s Clinic Orlando, Florida, USA
   
• J. L. Pippi Salle
  University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
   
• John C. Thomas
  Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital. at Vanderbilt, TN, USA
   
• Jae-Seung Paick
  Seoul National University Hospital Seoul, Korea
   
• Jeffrey A. Cadeddu
  University of Texas Southwestern Dallas, Texas, USA
   
• Jeffrey P. Weiss
  SUNY, Downstate Medical School Brooklyn, New York, USA
   
• Jens Rassweiler
  University of Heidelberg Heilbronn, Germany
   
• João Luiz Amaro
  Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Botucatu, SP, Brasil
   
• Jorge Gutierrez-Aceves
  Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center NC, USA
   
• Jorge Hallak
  Fac. de Med. Univ. de São Paulo São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• John Denstedt
  University of Western Ontario London, ON, Canada
   
• Jonathan I. Epstein
  The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA
   
• Jose Carlos Truzzi
  Universidade de Santo Amaro, São Paulo, SP
   
• Jose J. Correa
  Ces University Medellin, Columbia
   
• Joseph L. Chin
  University of Western Ontario London, ON, Canada
   
• Julio Pow-Sang
  Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida, USA
   
• K. Mutaguchi
  Hiroshima University Med Sci Hiroshima, Japan
   
• Karim Kader
  Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC, USA
   
• Karl-Dietrich Sievert
  University of Tuebingen Tuebingen, Germany
   
• Katia R. M. Leite
  Universidade de São Paulo, USP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• Laurence Baskin
  University California San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA
   
• Leandro Koifman
  Hospital Municipal Souza Aguiar Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
   
• Leopoldo Alves Ribeiro Filho
  Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brazil
   
• Liang Cheng
  Indiana University Sch Medicine Indianapolis, IN, USA
   
• Lisias N. Castilho
  Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• Lisieux Eyer de Jesus
  Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro Niterói, RJ, Brasil
   
• Luca Incrocci
  Erasmus Mc-Daniel Cancer Ctr Rotterdam, The Netherlands
   
• Lucas Nogueira
  Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, MG, Brasil
   
• Luis H. Braga
  McMaster University Hamilton Ontario, CA
   
• Marco Arap
  Hospital Sírio Libanês, São Paulo, Brasil
   
• M. Chad Wallis
  University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
   
• M. Manoharan
  University of Miami Sch Med Miami, FL, USA
   
• Marcos Tobias-Machado
  Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, SP, Brazil
   
• Marcello Cocuzza
  Escola de Medicina, USP, SP, Brasil
   
• Márcio Josbete Prado
  Universidade Federal da Bahia, BA, Brasil
   
• Marcos F. Dall’Oglio
  Universidade de São Paulo, USP, SP, Brasil
   
• Margaret S. Pearle
  University of Texas Southwestern Dallas, Texas, USA
   
• Matthew C. Biagioli
  Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida, USA
   
• Mauricio Rubinstein
  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
   
• Michael B. Chancellor
  William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI, USA
   
• Miguel Zerati Filho
  Inst of Urology and Nephrology S. J. do Rio Preto, SP, Brasil
   
• Monish Aron
  Cleveland Clinic Foundation Los Angeles, CA, USA
   
• Monthira Tanthanuch
  Prince of Songkla University, Haad Yai, Thailand
   
• Nestor Schor
  Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• Paulo R. Monti
  Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, MG, Brasil
   
• Paulo Rodrigues
  Hospital Beneficiencia Portuguesa de São Paulo SP, Brasil
   
• Rafael Carrion
  Univ. of South Florida Tampa, Florida, USA
   
• Ralf Anding
  University Hospital Friederich Wilhelms, University Bonn, Germany
   
• Ralph V. Clayman
  Univ. California Irvine Med Ctr Orange, California, USA
   
• Renan Uflacker
  Medical Univ. South Carolina Charleston, SC, USA
   
• Ricardo Bertolla
  Univ. Fed. São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• Ricardo Reges
  Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFCE, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil
   
• Ricardo Miyaoka
  Univ. Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, SP, Brazil
   
• Richard A. Santucci
  Wayne State University Detroit, MI, USA
   
• Rodolfo Borges
  Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto SP, Brasil
   
• Rodolfo Montironi
  Università Politecnica delle Marche, Region Ancona, Italy
   
• Rodrigo Krebs
  Univ. Federal do Paraná – UFPR Curitiba, PR, Brasil
   
• Roger R. Dmochowski
  Vanderbilt University Sch Med Nashville, Tennessee, USA
   
• Sean P. Elliott
  University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
   
• Simon Horenblas
  Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni Amsterdam, The Netherlands
   
• Stephen Y. Nakada
  University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA
   
• Tariq Hakki
  University of South Florida Tampa, FL, USA
   
• Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen
  Aarhus University Hospital Aarhus, Denmark
   
• Ubirajara Barroso Jr.
  Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Salvador, BA, Brasil
   
• Ubirajara Ferreira
  Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, SP, Brasil
   
• Victor Srougi
  Faculdade de Medicina de São Paulo São Paulo, SP, Brasil
   
• V. R. Patel
  University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida, USA
   
• Vincent Delmas
  Université René Descartes Paris, France
   
• Wade J. Sexton
  Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida, USA
   
• Waldemar S. Costa
  Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
   
• Wassim Kassouf
  McGill University Montreal, Canada
   
• Wilfrido Castaneda
  University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
   
• William Nahas
  Faculdade de Medicina, USP, SP, Brasil
   
• Wojtek Rowinski
  Univ of Warmia and Mazury Olsztyn, Poland
   
• Wolfgang Weidner
  Justus-Liebig Univ Giessen Giessen, Germany

Review

• Gustavo Carvalhal
  Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio Grande do Sul,  RS, Brazil

Basic Science

• Leopoldo Alves Ribeiro Filho
  State University of Sao Paulo,  SP, Brazil

Sexual Medicine

• Ernani L. Rhoden
  Federal Foundation of Med Sci,RS, Brazil

Neurourology

• Márcio Josbete Prado
  Federal Univ. of Bahia,  Salvador, BA, Brazil

Female Urology

• João Luiz Amaro
  Paulista University - UNESP, Botucatu, SP, Brazil

Infertility

• Marcello Cocuzza
  School of Medicine USP,  SP, Brazil

Oncology

• Lucas Nogueira
  Federal University of Minas Gerais,  MG, Brazil
• Antonio A. Ornellas
  National Cancer Institute Rio de Janeiro,  RJ, Brazil
• Marcus V. Sadi
  Federal University of Sao Paulo - UNIFESP, SP, Brazil

Pediatric Urology

• Adriano Calado
  University of Pernambuco - UPE, PE, Brazil

Uropathology

• Athanase Billis
  University of Campinas, Unicamp, SP, Brazil

Benign Prostate Disease

• Fernando G. Almeida
  Federal Univ of Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Reconstructive Urology

• Décio Streit
  Sao Lucas Hospital, PUC, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Lithiasis

• Eduardo Mazzucchi
  School of Medicine USP, SP, Brazil

Laparoscopy and Robotics

• Anuar I. Mitre
  University of Sao Paulo, USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Transplant

• Dr. William Nahasc
  School of Medicine USP, SP, Brazil

Clinical Cases

• Leonardo O. Reis
  University of Campinas, Unicamp, SP, Brazil

Video Section

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

Radiology Page

• Erich K. Lang
  Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore, Maryland, USA

• A. Lopez-Beltran
  Universidad de Córdoba Sch Med Cordoba, España
• A.J. Stephenson
  Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH, USA
• Adilson Prando
  Vera Cruz Hospital Campinas, SP, Brasil
• Ahmed I. El-Sakka
  Suez Canal University Sch Med Ismailia, Egypt
• Alan M. Nieder
  Columbia University Miami Beach, FL, USA
• Alexandre L. Furtado
  Universidade de Coimbra e Hospital Coimbra, Portugal
• Allen F. Morey
  University. Texas SW Med. Ctr. Dallas, Texas, USA
• Andre G. Cavalcanti
  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
• Andreas Bohle
  Helios Agnes Karll Hospital Bad Schwartau, Germany
• Anthony J. Schaeffer
  Northwestern University Chicago, IL, USA
• Antonio C. L. Pompeo
  Escola de Medicia do ABC, SP, Brasil
• Antonio C. Westphalen
  University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA
• Antonio Corrêa Lopes Neto
  Escola de Medicina do ABC, SP, Brasil
• Antonio Macedo Jr.
  Universidade Federal de São Paul, SP, Brazil
• Anuar I. Mitre
  Universidade de São Paulo, USP SP, Brazil
• Arthur T. Rosenfield
  Yale University Sch Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
• Ashok Agarwal
  Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• Athanase Billis
  Universidade de Campinas, Unicamp, SP, Brasil
• Athanasios Papatsoris
  University of Athens, Sismanoglio Hospital Athens, Greece
• Barry A. Kogan
  Albany Medical College Albany, NY, USA
• Boris Chertin
  Shaare Zedek Med Ctr Jerusalem, Israel
• C. F. Heyns
  University of Stellenbosch Tygerberg, South Africa
• Claudio Teloken
  FFFCMPA – Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
• Décio Streit Sao Lucas
  Hospital da PUC Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
• Donna M. Peehl
  Stanford University Sch Med Stanford, CA, USA
• Erik Busby
  University of Alabama Birmingham, AL, USA
• Ernani L. Rhoden Federal
  Hospital Moinhos de Vento, RS, Brasil
• Eugene Minevich
  University of Cincinnati Med Ctr Cincinnati, OH, USA
• Evangelos N. Liatsikos
  University of Patras Patras, Greece
• F. Hadziselimovic
  Ktk-Kindertagesklinik Liestal, Switzerland
• Fabio Pasqualotto
  Universidade de Caxias do Sul, RS, Brasil
• Ferdinand Frauscher
  Medical University Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria
• Fernando G. Almeida
  Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SP, Brasil
• Fernando Pires Vaz
  Hosp. Serv. do Est. do Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil
• Flavio Trigo Rocha
  Escola de Medicina da USP, SP, Brasil
• Francisco T. Denes
  Universidade de São Paulo, USP, Sao Paulo, Brasil
• Franklin C. Lowe
  Columbia University New York, NY, USA
• Glenn M. Preminger
  Duke University Medical Ctr Durham, NC, USA
• Guido Barbagli
  Ctr Uretrale e Genitali Chirurgia Arezzo, Italia
• Gustavo Carvalhal
  Pontifícia Universidade Católica RS, Brasil
• Hann-Chorng Kuo
  Buddhist Tzu Chi Sch Med Hualien, Taiwan
• Homero Bruschini
  Universidade de São Paulo, USP, SP, Brasil
• Hubert Swana
  Nemours Children’s Clinic Orlando, Florida, USA
• J. L. Pippi Salle
  University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
• Jack W. McAninch
  University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA
• Jae-Seung Paick
  Seoul National University Hospital Seoul, Korea
• Jeffrey A. Cadeddu
  University of Texas Southwestern Dallas, Texas, USA
• Jeffrey P. Weiss
  SUNY, Downstate Medical School Brooklyn, New York, USA
• Jens Rassweiler
  University of Heidelberg Heilbronn, Germany
• João Luiz Amaro
  Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Botucatu, SP, Brasil
• John Denstedt
  University of Western Ontario London, ON, Canada
• Jonathan I. Epstein
  The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA
• Jose Carlos Truzzi
  Universidade de Santo Amaro, São Paulo, SP
• Jose J. Correa
  Ces University Medellin, Columbia
• Joseph L. Chin
  University of Western Ontario London, ON, Canada
• Julio Pow-Sang
  Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida, USA
• K. Mutaguchi
  Hiroshima University Med Sci Hiroshima, Japan
• Karim Kader
  Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC, USA
• Karl-Dietrich Sievert
  University of Tuebingen Tuebingen, Germany
• Katia R. M. Leite
  Universidade de São Paulo, USP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
• Laurence Baskin
  University California San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA
• Leopoldo Alves Ribeiro Filho
  Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brazil
• Liang Cheng
  Indiana University Sch Medicine Indianapolis, IN, USA
• Lisias N. Castilho
  Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
• Luca Incrocci
  Erasmus Mc-Daniel Cancer Ctr Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Lucas Nogueira
  Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, MG, Brasil
• Luiz E. M. Cardoso
  Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
• M. Chad Wallis
  University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
• M. Manoharan
  University of Miami Sch Med Miami, FL, USA
• Marcos Tobias-Machado
  Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, SP, Brazil
• Marcello Cocuzza
  Escola de Medicina, USP, SP, Brasil
• Márcio Josbete Prado
  Universidade Federal da Bahia, BA, Brasil
• Marcos F. Dall’Oglio
  Universidade de São Paulo, USP, SP, Brasil
• Margaret S. Pearle
  University of Texas Southwestern Dallas, Texas, USA
• Matthew C. Biagioli
  Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida, USA
• Mauricio Rubinstein
  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
• Michael B. Chancellor
  William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI, USA
• Miguel Zerati Filho
  Inst of Urology and Nephrology S. J. do Rio Preto, SP, Brasil
• Monish Aron
  Cleveland Clinic Foundation Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Monthira Tanthanuch
  Prince of Songkla University, Haad Yai, Thailand
• Nestor Schor
  Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SP, Brasil
• Paulo R. Monti
  Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, MG, Brasil
• Paulo Rodrigues
  Hospital Beneficiencia Portuguesa de São Paulo SP, Brasil
• Rafael Carrion
  Univ. of South Florida Tampa, Florida, USA
• Ralph V. Clayman
  Univ. California Irvine Med Ctr Orange, California, USA
• Renan Uflacker
  Medical Univ. South Carolina Charleston, SC, USA
• Ricardo Miyaoka
  Univ. Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, SP, Brazil
• Richard A. Santucci
  Wayne State University Detroit, MI, USA
• Rodolfo Borges
  Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto SP, Brasil
• Rodolfo Montironi
  Università Politecnica delle Marche, Region Ancona, Italy
• Roger R. Dmochowski
  Vanderbilt University Sch Med Nashville, Tennessee, USA
• Sean P. Elliott
  University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
• Serge Carreau
  Univ. of Caen Basse-Normandie Caen, France
• Silvio Tucci Jr.
  Universidade Estatual de São Paulo, Riberão Preto, SP, Brasil
• Sharokh F. Shiriat
  Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
• Simon Horenblas
  Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Sittiporn Srinualnad
  Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital Bangkok, Thailand
• Stephen Y. Nakada
  University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA
• Tariq Hakki
  University of South Florida Tampa, FL, USA
• Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen
  Aarhus University Hospital Aarhus, Denmark
• Ubirajara Ferreira
  Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, SP, Brasil
• V. R. Patel
  University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida, USA
• Vincent Delmas
  Université René Descartes Paris, France
• Wade J. Sexton
  Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida, USA
• Waldemar S. Costa
  Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
• Wassim Kassouf
  McGill University Montreal, Canada
• Wilfrido Castaneda
  University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
• William Nahas
  Faculdade de Medicina, USP, SP, Brasil
• Wojtek Rowinski
  Univ of Warmia and Mazury Olsztyn, Poland
• Wolfgang Weidner
  Justus-Liebig Univ Giessen Giessen, Germany

• 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 - 2010)

• Miriam Dambros
  (2011)

• Sidney Glina
  (2012-2019)
   
• Luciano Alves Favorito
  (2020 – )

Ricardo de Morais
TECHNICAL EDITOR

Bruno Nogueira
PRODUCTION EDITOR

Patrícia Gomes
SECRETARY

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The authored articles and editorial comments, opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations in the International Braz J Urol are solely those of the individual authors and contributors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Journal and the Brazilian Society of Urology. Also, their publication in the International Braz J Urol does not imply any endorsement. The publication of advertisements in the International Braz J Urol, although expecting to conform to ethical standards, is not a warranty, endorsement or approval of the products or services advertised or of their effectiveness, quality, or safety. Medicine is a science that constantly and rapidly advances, therefore, independent verification of diagnosis and drug usage should be made. The Journal is not responsible for any injury to persons caused by usage of products, new ideas and dosage of drugs proposed in the manuscripts.

Manuscripts must be written in current English. Non-native speakers should ask a native specialist in medical English for checking the grammar and style. Either American or British English may be used but should be consistent throughout the manuscript.

A submission letter signed by all authors must accompany each manuscript. This letter must state that: a)- the paper or portion thereof have not been previously published and are not under consideration by another Journal, b)- that all authors have contributed to the information or material submitted for publication, and that all authors have read and approved the manuscript, c)- that the authors have no direct or indirect commercial financial incentive associated with publishing the manuscript, d)- that the source of extra-institutional funding, specially that provided by commercial companies, is indicated. After accepted for publication, the manuscript will become property of the International Braz J Urol.

Conflict of Interest – Any conflict of interest, mainly financial agreement with companies whose products are alluded to in the paper, must be clearly disclosed when submitting a manuscript for review. If accepted, a disclosure will be published in the final manuscript.

The requirements for authorship and the general rules for preparation of manuscripts submitted to the International Braz J Urol are in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. Ann Intern Med, 126: 36-47, 1997). An electronic version of the Uniform Requirements is available on various websites, including the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors web site: www.icmje.org.

MODEL OF THE SUBMISSION LETTER (Download click here)

In response to the concerns of the editors of scientific medical journals with ethics, quality and seriousness of published articles, a Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) was established in 1997 and a guideline document was published. The International Braz J Urol signed, approved, and follows the COPE guidelines. The Editor strongly encourages the authors to carefully read these guidelines before submitting a manuscript (www.publicationethics.org.uk/guidelines or www.brazjurol.com.br, vol. 26 (1): 4-10, 2000).

Peer Review – All submissions are subject to editorial review. Typically, each manuscript is anonymously forwarded by the Editor to 3 Reviewers (at least 2). If the Editor receives conflicting or inconclusive revisions, the manuscript is always sent to 1 or 2 additional Reviewers before the Editor’s decision. If considered necessary by the Editor or by the Reviewers, statistical procedures included in the manuscript will be analyzed by a statistician.

There is no fee for submission and review articles.

The International Braz J Urol contains six sections: Clinical Urology, Surgical Technique, Pediatric Urology, Urological Neurology, Investigative Urology, and Urological Survey. The articles should be written in English official orthography.

Abbreviations should be avoided, and when necessary must be specified when first time mentioned. Unusual expressions may not be used. A list of abbreviations must be provided at the end of the manuscript.

Every manuscript submitted to publication should have a cover page containing the title, short title (up to 50 characters), authors and institution. Up to six key words should be provided. These words should be identical to the medical subject headings (MeSH) that appear in the Index Medicus of the National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html).
One of the authors should be designated as correspondent and the complete correspondence address, telephone and fax numbers and E-mail should be provided.

If any financial support has been provided, the name of the institution should be mentioned.

Original Articles, Pediatric Urology and Urological Neurology: Original articles should contain a Cover Page, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References, Tables and Legends, each section beginning in a separate page and numbered consecutively. Original articles should cover contemporary aspects of Urology. The manuscript text should contain no more than 2500 words, excluding the Abstract. The number of authors is limited to five. References should contain no more than 30 citations, including the most important articles on the subject. Articles not related to the subject must be excluded.

Review and State of the Art: Review and State of the Art articles are accepted for publication upon Editorial Board’s request only. A Review Article is a critical analysis of the most recent published manuscripts dealing with a urological topic. A State of the Art article is the view and experience of a recognized expert in the topic. An abstract must be provided.

Surgical Technique: These manuscripts should present new surgical techniques or instruments and should contain Introduction, Surgical Technique, Comments and up to five References. An abstract must be provided. At least five cases performed with the technique must be included.

Challenging Clinical Cases: These manuscripts should present relevant clinical or surgical situations which can bring or consolidate our understanding of genesis, natural history, pathophysiology and treatment of diseases (More information).

Structure of the articles
The number of authors is limited to three.
Abstract (maximum 200 words) and should contain
- Main findings: Report case(s) relevant aspects
- Case(s) hypothesis: Proposed premise substantiating case(s) description
- Promising future implications: Briefly delineates what might it add? Lines of research that could be addressed
Full text (maximum 2000 words):
- Scenario: Description of case(s) relevant preceding and existing aspects;
- Case(s) hypothesis and rational: precepts, clinical and basic reasoning supporting the case(s) hypothesis and the raised scenario. Why is it important and is being reported?
- Discussion and future perspectives: what might it add and how does it relate to the current literature. ‘Take-home message’ – lessons learnt;– Table and/or Figure limits: 2 (plates aggregating multiple images are encouraged) each exceeding table or figure will decrease 250 words of the full text;
- Number of references: 10-15.

Basic and Translational Urology: The aim of this section is the publication of experimental studies on Basic Sciences applied to urology. The sections of the manuscript are the same of Original Articles.

Other Sections:

Review Articles: Are accepted for publication upon Editorial Board’s request only. A Review Article is a critical analysis of the most recent published manuscripts dealing with a urological topic. An abstract must be provided. Citations are limited to 50 ready available references.

Urological Survey: Will be published upon the Editor and Section Board decision.

Radiology Page: Will be published upon the Section Editor decision.

Video Section: The material must be submitted in the appropriate local, in the Journal’s site, where all instructions may be found (Video Section link)
Letters to the Editor: The letter should be related to articles previously published in the Journal, should be useful for urological practice and must not exceed 500 words. They will be published according to the Editorial Board evaluation.

ILLUSTRATIONS:

The illustrations should not be sent merged in the text. They should be sent separately, in the final of the manuscript.

1) The number of illustrations should not exceed 10 per manuscript.

2) Check that each figure is cited in the text.

3) The legends must be sent in a separate page.

4) The legends of histological illustrations should contain the histological technique and the final magnification.

5) The International Braz J Urol encourages color reproduction of illustrations wherever appropriate.

6) All histological illustrations should be supplied in color.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

1) Do not embed the figures in the text, but supply them as separate files.

2) For Submitting Photographs Electronically, please:

Supply photographs as TIFF (preferable) or JPG files. The TIFF of JPG should be saved at a resolution of 300 dpi (dots per inch) at final size.
If scanned, the photographs should be scanned at 300 dpi, with 125mm width, saved as TIFF file and in grayscale, not embed in Word or PowerPoint.

3) For Submitting Line Artwork Electronically please note that:

Line drawings must be supplied as EPS files (give an EPS extension, e.g. Fig01.eps).
Use black text over light to mid grey and white text over dark grey or black shades.
Use lower case for all labeling, except for initial capitals for proper nouns and necessary mathematical notation. Centre each file on the page and save it at final size with the correct orientation. We recommend a minimum final width of 65 mm, but note that artwork may need to be resized and relabeled to fit the format of the Journal.

4) IMPORTANT - Avoid - Do Not

a) DO NOT embed the images in the text; save them as a separate file
b) DO NOT supply artwork as a native file. Most illustration packages now give the option to “save as” or export as EPS, TIFF or JPG.
c) DO NOT supply photographs in PowerPoint or Word. In general, the files supplied in these formats are at low resolution (less than 300 dpi) and unsuitable for publication.
d) DO NOT use line weights of less than 0.25 point to create line drawings, because they will nor appear when printed.

TABLES: The tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals. Each table should be typed on a single page, and a legend should be provided for each table. Number tables consecutively and cites each table in text in consecutive order.

REFERENCES: The References should be numbered following the sequence that they are mentioned in the text. The references should not be alphabetized. They must be identified in the text with Arabic numerals in parenthesis. Do not include unpublished material and personal communications in the reference list. If necessary, mention these in the body of the text. For abbreviations of journal names refer to the “List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus” (http://www.nlm.nih.gov). The authors must present the references according to the following examples; the names of all authors must be included; when exist more than six authors, list the first six authors followed by et al. The initial and the final pages of the reference should be provided:

Papers published in periodicals:

• Paterson RF, Lifshitz DA, Kuo RL, Siqueira Jr TM, Lingeman JE: Shock wave lithotripsy monotherapy for renal calculi. Int Braz J Urol. 2002; 28:291-301.
• Holm NR, Horn T, Smedts F, Nordling J, de la Rossete J: Does ultrastructural morphology of human detrusor smooth muscle cell characterize acute urinary retention? J Urol. 2002; 167:1705-9.

Books:

• Sabiston DC: Textbook of Surgery. Philadelphia, WB Saunders. 1986; vol. 1, p. 25.

Chapters in Books:

• Penn I: Neoplasias in the Allograft Recipient. In: Milford EL (ed.), Renal Transplantation. New York, Churchill Livingstone. 1989; pp. 181-95.

The Int Braz J Urol has the right of reject inappropriate manuscripts (presentation, number of copies, subjects, etc.) as well as proposes modifications in the original text, according to the Referees’ and Editorial Board opinion.

THE EDITORS SUGGEST THE AUTHORS TO OBSERVE THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES WHEN SUBMITTING A MANUSCRIPT:

The Ideal Manuscript may not exceed 2500 words.
The Title must be motivating, trying to focus on the objectives and content of the manuscript.
Introduction must exclude unnecessary information. It should briefly describe the reasons and objective of the paper.
Materials and Methods should describe how the work has been done. It must contain sufficient information to make the study reproducible. The statistical methods have to be specified.
The Results should be presented using Tables and Figures whenever possible. Excessive Tables and Figures must be avoided. The tables should not be repeated on the text.
The Discussion must comment only the results of the study, considering the recent literature.
Conclusions must be strictly based on the study findings.
References should contain no more than 30 citations, including the most important articles on the subject. Articles not related to the subject must be excluded.
The Abstract must contain up to 250 words and must conform to the following style: Purpose, Materials and Methods, Results and Conclusions. Each section of the manuscript must be synthesized in short sentences, focusing on the most important aspects of the manuscript. The authors must remember that the public firstly read only the Abstract, reading the article only when they find it interesting.

NOTE:
Recent issues of the International Braz J Urol must be observed concerning the presentation form of the manuscript.