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Reviewer acknowledgements 2017

The editors and staff of BMC Urology would like to warmly thank the reviewers whose comments helped to shape the journal, for their invaluable assistance with review of manuscripts in Volume 17 (2017).

Takashige Abe, Japan

Hamdy Aboutaleb, United Arab Emirates

Andre Luis Abreu, USA

Adebowale Adeniran, USA

Mayank Agarwal, India

Piyush Agarwal, USA

Madhu Agrawal, India

Göran Ahlgren, Sweden

Imran Ahmad, UK

Murat Akand, Turkey

Erdem Akbay, Turkey

Oktay Akca, USA

Yigit Akin, Turkey

Omar Al Kadhi, UK

Simone Albisinni, Belgium

Bedeir Ali-El-Dein, Egypt

Satoshi Anai, Japan

Karl-Erik Andersson, USA

Sero Andonian, Canada

Javier Angulo, Spain

Ester Anton, Spain

Alberto Azoubel Antunes, Brazil

Jagadeesan Arunakaran, India

Anastasios Asimakopoulos, Italy

Anastasios Athanasopoulos, Greece

Arun Azad, Australia

Andreia Azevedo, Portugal

Abdel-Rahmene Azzouzi, France

Aditya Bagrodia, USA

Mark Ball, USA

Marcin L. Barczynski, Poland

Riccardo Bartoletti, Italy

Tim Baumgartner, USA

Arezou Bayat, USA

Roger Bayston, UK

David Berman, USA

Bimal Bhindi, Canada

Daniele Bianchi, Italy

Saleh Binsaleh, Saudi Arabia

Lori A. Birder, USA

Haraldur Bjarnason, USA

Edward Blumenthal, USA

Martin Bögemann, Germany

Maarten C. Bosland, USA

Luis Braga, Canada

Andrea Braga, Italy

Mariana Brait, USA

Guadalupe Bravo, Mexico

Suzanne Broadbent, Australia

James D. Brooks, USA

Richard Bryan, UK

Alessandro Calarco, Italy

Adriano Campagna, Italy

Marco Carini, Italy

Rufus Cartwright, UK

Pietro Castellan, Italy

Daniele Castellani, Italy

Helen P. Cathro, USA

Susanna Cattarino, Italy

Mehmet Cetinkaya, Turkey

Sam S Chang, USA

Ashwini Chauhan, India

Alcides Chaux, Paraguay

David Y.T. Chen, USA

Min Chul Cho, North Korea

Seungtaek L Choi, USA

Benjamin I. Chung, USA

Sebastiano Cimino, Italy

Luca Cindolo, Italy

Geert W. Claeys, Belgium

Andrea Cocci, Italy

Giovanni Cochetti, Italy

Alexander Cole, USA

Vincenza Conteduca, Italy

Anthony Corcoran, USA

Nikki Cotterill, UK

Michele Cotugno, Italy

Paul Crispen, USA

Roland Dahlem, Germany

Philipp Dahm, USA

Bo Dai, China

Frank Ch H D'Ancona, Netherlands

Kelvin Davies, USA

Ian Davis, Australia

Rodney Davis, USA

Francesco De Carlo, Italy

Vincent De Ruyter, Belgium

Marco De Velasco, Japan

Karel Decaestecker, Belgium

Federico Deho, Italy

Dario Del Fabbro, Italy

Chiara Del Prete, Italy

Scott Delacroix, USA

Warick J. Delprado, Australia

Giovanni Battista Di Pierro, Italy

David Castro Díaz, Spain

Hooman Djaladat, USA

Frede Donskov, Denmark

Tanya Dorff, USA

Tracy M Downs, USA

Stéphane Droupy, France

Thomas E Ahlering, USA

Lee E. Moore, USA

Scott Eggener, USA

Ahmed El-Nahas, Egypt

Mohamed El-Sheemy, Egypt

Mark Emberton, UK

Okyaz Eminaga, Germany

Fikret Erdemir, Turkey

Laura Evangelista, Italy

Karel Everaert, Belgium

Bettina F Drake, USA

Salomao Faintuch, USA

Christian Fankhauser, Switzerland

M S Faridi, India

Luciano Alves Favorito, Brazil

Israel Fernández-Pineda, USA

Christopher Filson, USA

Cristian Fiori, Italy

Trevor Flood, Canada

Gordon Flowerdew, Canada

Brian Flynn, USA

Pierfrancesco Francesco Bassi, Italy

Ariella A. Friedman, USA

Michael Froehner, Germany

Andrea Gallioli, Italy

Jr Garcia, Spain

Herney Andrés García-Perdomo, Colombia

Vishnu V Garla, USA

Hans Garmo, USA

Mark Garzotto, USA

Robert Gatenby, USA

Gabriele Gaziev, Italy

Petrisor Geavlete, Romania

John Gebhart, USA

Travis A Gerke, USA

Geoffrey Gotto, Canada

Cécile Gouttefangeas, Germany

Candace Granberg, USA

Stavros Gravas, Greece

Nikolaos Grivas, Greece

Tobias Gross, Australia

Maria Madalena Pessoa Guerra, Brazil

Bertrand Guillonneau, France

Howard Gurney, Australia

Andrea Guttilla, Italy

David S. Hains, USA

Andrea Haitel, Austria

Won Sik Ham, North Korea

Mohamad Hamady, UK

Moneer Hanna, USA

Reina Haque, USA

Ahmed  Harraz, Egypt

Naif Al Hathal, Saudi Arabia

Jean Philippe Haymann, France

Kelly Healy, USA

Lance Heilbrun, USA

Elmar Heinrich, Germany

Hans Heinzer, Germany

Martin Hellmich, Germany

Niall Heney, USA

Amin Herati, USA

David Hernandez, USA

Matthias D Hofer, USA

Nakysa Hooman, Iran

Wolfgang Horninger, Austria

James Hsieh, USA

Eu Chang Hwang, South Korea

Valerio Iacovelli, Italy

Kenneth Iczkowski, USA

Brant Inman, USA

Takaaki Inoue, Japan

Ari Isaacson, USA

Turgay Isbir, Turkey

Samay Jain, USA

David Jarrard, USA

Ravishankar Jayadevappa, USA

Chang Wook Jeong, South Korea

Marjorie Johnson, Canada

Brian Jones, UK

Richard W. Joseph, USA

Stefanos Kachrilas, UK

Ateş Kadıoğlu, Turkey

Nicolas Kalfa, France

Panagiotis Kallidonis, Greece

Fatih Mehmet Kandemir, Turkey

Lei Kang, USA

Mohamed Keheila, USA

Elijah O. Kehinde, Kazakhstan

Anna Krarup Keller, Denmark

Scott Kelly, USA

Muammer Kendirci, Turkey

Sr Khan, USA

Dae Kim, USA

Quinten King, New Zealand

Zachary Klaasen, Canada

Hans Klingler, Austria

Ervin Kocjancic, USA

Takuya Koie, Japan

Kevin Koo, USA

Bridget F. Koontz, USA

Omer Kucuk, USA

Pradeep Kumar, India

Hann-Chorng Kuo, Taiwan

Henry Hang Fai Kwok, China

Young Kwok, USA

Francisco G. La Rosa, USA

Sara Lenherr, USA

Julien Letendre, Canada

Steven N. Levine, USA

Xiao Li, China


Vincenzo Li Marzi, Italy

Chunhou Liao, Taiwan

Richard Link, USA

Michele Lodde, USA

Romaric Loffroy, France

R. Lombardo, Italy

Nicola Longo, Italy

Armando Lorenzo, Canada

Francesco Lotti, Italy

Vincent R. Lucente, USA

Bevilacqua Luigi, Italy

Lars Lund, Denmark

Albersen Maarten, Belgium

Stephan Madersbacher, Austria

Marko Majstorovic, Serbia

James Malone-Lee, UK

Matteo Maltagliati, Italy

Philipp C. Mandel, Germany

Jose Mansure, Canada

Jodi Maranchie, USA

Daniel Margolis, USA

Agostino Mattei, Switzerland

Wesley Mayer, USA

Ettore Mearini, Italy

Joshua J Meeks, USA

Reza Mehrazin, USA

Robert Meisel, USA

Gregory J. Metzger, USA

Riccardo Milandri, Italy

Roman Miller, USA

Alireza Mirshemirani, Iran

Tuomas Mirtti, Finland

Alison Mondul, USA

Mariana Monteiro, Portugal

Ronald B. Moore, Canada

Yoram Mor, Israel

Kim Moretti, Australia

Giuseppe Morgia, Italy

Kazuyuki Mori, Japan

Elena Morini, Italy

Stefania Musco, Italy

Imran Mushtaq, UK

Ahmed Nasr, Canada

Joseph Nassif, Lebanon

Kent Nastiuk, USA

Brusabhanu Nayak, India

Tipu Nazeer, USA

Christopher Netsch, Germany

David Nicol, UK

Yasser Abdelsattar Noureldin, Egypt

Kazuyuki Numakura, Japan

Fred O. Ugwumba, Nigeria

Michael O'Callaghan, Australia

Carsten Henning Ohlmann, Germany

Yasuhiro Oki, USA

Rebecca O'Malley, USA

Ramesh Omranipour, Iran

E. Charles Osterberg, USA

Wolfgang Otto, Germany

Idir Ouzaid, France

Howard P. Gurney, Australia

Channing J. Paller, USA

Gladell P. Paner, USA

Jong Park, USA

Antonio Pastore, Italy

Antonio Luigi Pastore, Italy

Alexander Pastuszak, USA

Paisit Paueksakon, USA

Stephen Pautler, Canada

Christian Pavlovich, USA

Pietro Pepe, Italy

Sonia A. Perez, Greece

Nyirády Péter, Hungary

Andrew Peterson, USA

Maria Picken, USA

Luis Campos Pinheiro, Portugal

Giacomo Maria Pirola, Italy

Martins Pisco, Portugal

Henry Pleass, Australia

Andrzej Prajsner, Poland

Fabrizio Presicce, Italy

David Pryor, Australia

Stefano Puliatti, Italy

Luigi Quaresima, Italy

Robert Rabenalt, Germany

Marco Racioppi, USA

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, India

Sheikh Raisuddin, India

Ranjith Ramasamy, USA

Pavitra Ranawat, India

Prem Rashid, Australia

Fairleigh Reeves, Australia

Henning Reis, Germany

Patrick Richard, USA

Benjamin Ristau, USA

Mino Rizzo, Italy

Mack Roach, USA

Charles-Henry Rochat, Switzerland

Alejandro Rodriguez, USA

Moises Elias Rodriguez Socarras, Spain

Matt T. Rosenberg, USA

Giorgio Ivan Russo, Italy

Ravindra Bhalchandra Sabnis, India

Wolfgang Saeger, Germany

Kanokporn Saenphet, Thailand

Jay Sandlow, USA

Rm Sathish Kumar, India

Bruna Scaggiante, Italy

Vincenzo Scattoni, Italy

Chad Schmiedt, USA

John Schoolmeester, USA

Tommaso Sciarra, Italy

Tarik Sener, Turkey

I Sethmann, Germany

Wade Sexton, USA

Girish Shah, USA

Mohammed Shahait, USA

Pranav Sharma, USA

Hiroaki Shiina, Japan

Sung Ryul Shim, South Korea

Masaki Shiota, Japan

Jay Simhan, USA

Tatjana Simic, Serbia

Elisa Simonetti, Italy

Prabhjot Singh, India

Dinesh Singh, USA

Sanjay Sinha, India

Gottfrid Sjödahl, Sweden

Eila Skinner, USA

Tina Skinner, Australia

Zachary Smith, USA

Grahame Smith, Australia

Steven Smith, USA

Petros Sountoulides, Greece

Philippe Spiess, USA

Alexander Springer, Austria

Ramesh Srinivasan, India

Peter Stahl, USA

Joanna Stefanowicz, Poland

Carsten Stephan, Germany

Johan Stranne, Sweden

Kelly Stratton, USA

Dirk C Strauss, UK

Pheroze Tamboli, USA

Wei Shen Tan, UK

Seppo Taskinen, Finland

Keong Tatt Foo, Singapore

Daniel Taussky, Canada

Alexis E Te, USA

Nithin Theckumparampil, USA

Nikesh Thiruchelvam, UK

Karen Thomas, UK

James Thompson, Australia

Gayani Tillekeratne, USA

Tilman Todenhofer, Denmark

Leonardo Tortolero, Spain

Jeffery Tosoian, USA

Alberto Trinchieri, Italy

Dean A. Troyer, USA

Shi-Ming Tu, USA

Krzysztof Tupikowski, Poland

Christian Türk, Austria

Filippo Maria Turri, Italy

Jonathan Tward, USA

Mükremin Uysal, Turkey

Jason Van Batavia, USA

Stephen Van Den Eeden, USA

Mieke Van Hemelrijck, UK

Charles Van Praet, Belgium

Jairam Vanamala, USA

Alex J. Vanni, USA

E. Camille Vaughan, USA

Rodrick Ven Den Bergh, Netherlands

Domenico Veneziano, Italy

Krishnan Venkatesan, USA

Paolo Verze, Italy

Andrew Vincent, Australia

Manish Vira, USA

Matteo Vittori, Italy

Srinivas Vourganti, USA

Pankaj Wadhwa, India

Adrian Stuart Wagg, Canada

Christopher Wallis, Canada

Giles Walters, Australia

Run Wang, USA

Hsin-Hsiao Wang, USA

Sven Wenske, USA

Priya Werahera, USA

Ouida Westney, USA

Carl Wijburg, Netherlands

Stephen B. Williams, USA

James C. Williams Jr., USA

Jan Wohlfahrt, Denmark

Yon-Cheong Wong, Taiwan

Hsi-Yang Wu, USA

Guang-Qian Xiao, USA

Xian-Jin Xie, USA

Manisha Yadav, India

Erjia Yan, USA

Masahiro Yao, Japan

John Yaxley, Australia

Asif Yildirim, Turkey

Paul Yoo, Canada

Ezekiel Young, USA

Ramy Youssef Yaacoub, USA

Nicola Zampieri, Italy

Stanley Zaslau, USA

Jarcy Zee, USA

Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, USA

Yuesheng Zhang, USA

Weide Zhong, China

Alexandre Zlotta, Canada


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