Anatomy for Modern Urology

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to introduce a Special Issue on anatomy for modern urology. Technological innovations and molecular discoveries change the basement of medicine and interventional practices in urology and open a new era. The field of urology deals with diseases of the urinary system and genital male organs, requiring multidisciplinary approaches. These new insights also move the field of morphological sciences to adapt the anatomical knowledge and morphological models to the innovations and facilitate their translation in practice. The more recent aspects of gross and microscopic anatomy in urology which require comprehensive morphological knowledge for practice or biological research are delivered in this Special Issue. The new approaches using information technology and virtual anatomy to reduce the learning curve in interventional radiology and surgery to treat urological diseases are also mentioned. This Special Issue seeks reviews and original papers covering a wide range of hot topics related to new studies around clinical and radiological anatomy, uropathology, the functional and molecular aspects of aging, and diseases in the field of urology. New teaching approaches and research methodologies for urological sciences are also welcome.

We hope that this Special Issue under the scope of anatomy will provide a comprehensive and enthusiastic view to integrate morphological and urological sciences within the most recent progress of the health innovations.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Geometric anatomy of the prostate for IRE focal ablation;
2. The edges of the prostate and instrumental surgery;
3. The spatial genomics of zonal anatomy and cell compartments in the prostate gland;
4. Advances in the neuroanatomy of the bladder;
5. The clinical relevance of virtual and printed 3D models for kidney surgery;
6. Practical review of the virtual anatomy atlas and simulators for young urologists;
7. Advances in the functional anatomy of the penis.

Prof. Dr. Olivier Cussenot
Guest Editor

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