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<br /> UROLOGY<br /> ISSN 2053-4213 April 2013 • emjreviews.com<br /> INSIDE<br /> Review of the<br /> 28th EAU Annual Congress<br /> Milan, Italy<br /> UROLOGY<br /> contents<br /> EDITORIAL PANEL 4<br /> CONGRESS REVIEW 8<br /> • Review of the 29th EAU Annual Congress held in Milan, Italy, 15th-19th March 2013<br /> BURDEN OF ILLNESS AND OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF RECURRENT CYSTITIS 23<br /> • Florian Wagenlehner, Kurt Naber, Bjorn Wullt, Peter Tenke<br /> INCREASING EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF GAG THERAPY IN DIFFERENT FORMS OF CYSTITIS 35<br /> • Pier Francesco Bassi, Mauro Cervigni, Enrico Finazzi Agrò, Rocco Damiano, Roman Tomaškin<br /> TOWARDS INDIVIDUALISATION OF PR<a title="EMJ - Urology page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=1"> UROLOGY ISSN 2053-4213 </a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=2"> UROLOGY contents EDITORIAL PANEL </a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=3"> PRACTICE PATTERNS FOR IMPROVING OUTCOMES IN WOMEN</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=4"> UROLOGY Editorial Panel Dr. Abdullah Erdem Canda</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=5"> UROLOGY Publisher Claire Gore Editorial Direc</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=6"> 6 UROLOGY • April 2013 </a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=7"> Foreword Evangelos Liatsikos, M.D, Ph.D Associate</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=8"> EAU ANNUAL CONGRESS 2013 MILANO CONGRESSI, MILAN,</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=9"> Welcome to the European Medical Journal review of</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=10"> EAU ANNUAL CONGRESS 2013 MILANO CONGRESSI, MILAN,</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=11"> EW OF THE 28TH ANNUAL EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF CON</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=12"> EAU ANNUAL CONGRESS 2013 MILANO CONGRESSI, MILAN,</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=13"> ANTIBIOTIC ‘TIME BOMB’ KEEPS TICKING RISK of inf</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=14"> EAU ANNUAL CONGRESS 2013 MILANO CONGRESSI, MILAN,</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=15"> EXTERNAL INFLUENCES HAVE POTENTIALLY KEY ROLE IN </a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=16"> EAU ANNUAL CONGRESS 2013 MILANO CONGRESSI, MILAN,</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=17"> organs taken when placing the patient in the same</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=18"> EAU ANNUAL CONGRESS 2013 MILANO CONGRESSI, MILAN,</a> <a title="EMJ - 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Urology page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=33"> Increasing Evidence of Effectiveness of G</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=34"> INCREASING EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF GAG THERA</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=35"> EAU CONGRESS REVIEW Various clinical trials have</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=36"> INCREASING EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF GAG THERA</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=37"> EAU CONGRESS REVIEW occurrence of breakthrough i</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=38"> INCREASING EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF GAG THERA</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=39"> EAU CONGRESS REVIEW from clinically symptomatic </a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=40"> INCREASING EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF GAG THERA</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=41"> </a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=42"> TOWARDS INDIVIDUALISATION OF PROSTATE CANCER 4,3</a> <a title="EMJ - Urology page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2ac0f2e8?page=43"> EAU CONGRESS REVIEW treatment to be targeted. 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