The WORLD JOURNAL OF UROLOGY conveys regularly the essential results of urological research and their practical and clinical relevance to a broad audience of urologists in research and clinical practice. In order to guarantee a balanced program, articles are published to reflect the developments in all fields of urology on an internationally advanced level. Each issue treats a main topic in review articles of invited international experts. Free papers are unrelated articles to the main topic.

Editors-in-Chief
M. Burchardt, Greifswald, Germany
A. de la Taille, Créteil, France

Associate Editors
T.R.W. Herrmann, Frauenfeld
A.S. Merseburger, Lubeck

Managing Editors
G. Ploussard, Creteil
N. Kroger, Magdeburg
SIU Associate Editors
P. Laguna, Istanbul
P. Black, Vancouver
Honorary Editor
U. Jonas, Hannover
Editorial Board
J. Alukal, New York
A. Anastasiadis, Frauenfeld
K.-E. Andersson, Winston-Salem
S. Andonian, Montreal
R. Autorino, Cleveland
M. Babjuk, Prague
J. Bedke, Tübingen
A. Bex, Amsterdam
D.M. Bolton, Melbourne
G. Bonkat, Basel
S.B. Brandes, St. Louis
A. Breda, Barcelona
M. Brehmer, Stockholm
B. Breyer, San Francisco
A. Briganti, Milan
N.N.-P. Buchholz, Dubai
M. Burger, Regensburg
E. Comperat, Paris
M. Cronauer, Ulm
P. Dahm, Gainesville
R. R. Dmochowski, Nashville
B. Eisner, Boston
J. Eswara, Boston
M. Frydenberg, Clayton
A. Ganpule, Nadiad
S. Gilbert, Gainesville
A. Gözen, Heilbronn
S. Goonewardene, Coventry
M. Gorin, Baltimore
V. Guzelburc, Istanbul
K. Hammerich, Bethesda
P. Hedlund, Lund
M. Hora, Plzen
S. Jacobsen, Pasadena
C.J. Kane, La Jolla
P. Karakiewicz, Montreal
C. Kastner, Cambridge
M. Kathrins, Boston
T. Klatte, Bournemouth
T. Knoll, Sindelfingen
E. Kreydin, Los Angeles
S. Krishnamurti, Hyderabad
S. Kulkarni, Pune
N. Lawrentschuk, Melbourne 
E. Liatsikos, Patras
C Liu, Guangzhou
T. Loch, Flensburg
V.B. Lokeshwar, Miami
B. Ljungberg, Umea
L. Lusuardi, Salzburg
A. Miernik, Freiburg
V. Mirone, Napoli
U. Nagele, Hall
A. Neisius, Mainz
C. Netsch, Hamburg
Y. Noureldin, Seattle
L. Oliveira Reis, Sao Paolo
P. Osther, Vejle
J. Oswald, Linz
M. Oya, Tokyo
D. Penson, Nashville
S. Perner, Lübeck
Ch. Protzel, Rostock
R. Ramasamy, Miami
J. Rassweiler, Heilbronn
S. Rawal, New Delhi
M. Remzi, Korneuburg
J. Schalken, Nijmegen
H.P. Schmid, St. Gallen
B. Schmitz-Dräger, Fürth
C. Scoffone, Turin
C. Seitz, Wien
M. Selcuk Silay, Istanbul
S.F. Shariat, Vienna
N. Shore, Myrtle Beach
M.S. Silay, Instanbul
G. Smith, Sydney
B. Somani, Southampton
T. Steiner, Erfurt
C. G. Stief, Munich
J. U. Stolzenburg, Leipzig
M. Stope, Greifswald
H. Suzuki, Tokyo
J. Thueroff, Mainz
M.C. Truss, Dortmund
H. Uemura, Osaka
A van der Merwe, Stellenbosch
I. van Oort, Nijmegen
A. Vrieling, Nijmegen
H. Woo, Sydney
S. Xia, Shanghai
H. Zargar, Melbourne
Y. Zeng, Shenyang
U. Zimmermann, Greifswald