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Statistical analysis:
None.
Obtaining funding:
None.
Administrative, technical, or material support:
None.
Supervision:
Knoll, Tu¨ rk, Ruhayel, Dabestani.
Other:
None.
Financial disclosures:
Thomas Knoll certifies that all conflicts of interest,
including specific financial interests and relationships and affiliations
relevant to the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript
(eg, employment/affiliation, grants or funding, consultancies, honoraria,
stock ownership or options, expert testimony, royalties, or patents filed,
received, or pending), are the following: Alesˇ Petrˇı´k has received speaker
honoraria from GSK and fellowship and travel grants from Astellas and
Olympus. Christian Seitz has received consultant fees from Astellas and
speaker honoraria from Rowa Wagner. Michael Straub has received
consultant fees from Richard Wolf Endoskope and Sanochemia
Pharmazeutika. Thomas Knoll has received consultant fees from
Schoelly, Boston Scientific, Olympus, and Storz Medical, and speaker
honoraria from Karl Storz, Richard Wolf, Olympus, Boston Scientific, and
Ibsen; and has participated in trials by Cook and Coloplast. The
remaining authors have nothing to disclose.
Funding/Support and role of the sponsor:
None.
Acknowledgments:
We are grateful for the valuable help of Karin Plass,
European Association of Urology Guidelines Office, Arnhem, The
Netherlands, for providing administrative support. We also thank
Richard Sylvester and Thomas Lam, of the EAU Guidelines Office, for
providing methodological supervision and support.
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