the 1st symposium of the operating workforce on experimental urology of the German Society of Urology was once held in Cologne in 1972. It was once intended to be a platform to offer and, particularly, to debate experimental reviews constructing new diagnostic and healing methods, and to advertise in­ novation in urology in Germany. This plan was once good got, and through the final sixteen years either the variety of contributors from different ecu and in a foreign country nations and the quantity and caliber of shows were continually expanding. on the most up-to-date assembly, held in Aachen in 1988, new info have been awarded on renal cellphone melanoma, andrology, prostatic melanoma and adenoma, bladder melanoma, urinary diversion, urodynamics, renal pathophysiology, transplantation and the pathogenesis and therapy of urolithiasis. the current e-book comprises forty four of the 109 papers given on the Aachen assembly, overlaying either simple and scientific study. it will likely be of eminent curiosity to all scientifically minded urologists, oncologists, neurophysiolo­ gists, endocrinologists, and pathologists since it is a synopsis of all of the significant clinical learn at present being performed in urology in Europe. There aren't any different books to be had which supply as finished a canopy­ age of modern experimental matters in urology. the purpose of the sequence Inves­ tigative Urology is to illustrate the continual improvement of study in urology and to motivate all colleagues drawn to experimental urol­ ogy to proceed their very important actions and create new foreign co­ operation.