Raimondo M Cervellione, Alberto Mantovani, John Gearhart, Guy Bogaert, Rita Gobet, Paolo Caione, Alan P Dickson
OBJECTIVE: On behalf of the European Society of Paediatric Urology (ESPU), a prospective study was designed with the aim of defining the actual number of babies born with bladder exstrophy, cloacal exstrophy, and epispadias in Europe over a 12-month period, and verifying the distribution of the exstrophy patients born during the study period among the different paediatric urology centres in Europe. STUDY DESIGN: The study was structured with a chief investigator and one national investigator for each country enrolled in the study...
December 2015: Journal of Pediatric Urology