期刊名称：NATURE REVIEWS UROLOGY ISSN： 1759-4812 版本： SCI-CDE 出版频率： Monthly 出版社： NATURE PORTFOLIO, HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, BERLIN, Germany, 14197   出版社网址： http://www.nature.com 期刊网址： http://www.nature.com/nrurol/index.html 影响因子： 14.432 主题范畴： UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal Nature Reviews' clinical content is written by internationally renowned clinical academics and researchers and targeted towards readers in the medical sciences, from postgraduate level upwards. While intended to be read by practicing doctors, researchers and academics within a specialty, we aim to make all our articles accessible to readers working in any medical discipline. In-depth Reviews present authoritative, up-to-date information on a topic, placing it in the context of a field's history and development. 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Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Peter T Scardino, MD Head Prostate Cancer Program Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center USA Advisory Board Timothy B Boone Chair Department of Urology Baylor College of Medicine Houston USA Peter Boyle Director International Agency for Research on Cancer Lyon France Christopher Cheng Head and Senior Consultant Department of Urology Singapore General Hospital Singapore Peter L Choyke Chief Molecular Imaging Program National Institutes of Health Bethesda USA Mahesh R Desai Chairman Department of Urology Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital Nadiad India Mohamed A Ghoneim Director Urology and Nephrology Center University of Mansoura Mansoura Egypt Larry Goldenberg Professor of Urology Director, The Prostate Cancer Centre University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada Bertrand D Guillonneau Head Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery Department of Urology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre New York USA David J Handelsman Director ANZAC Research Institute Sydney Australia Chris F Heyns Chairman Department of Urology Faculty of Health Sciences University of Stellenbosch Tygerberg South Africa Hedvig Hricak Chairman, Department of Radiology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York USA Gerald H Jordan Director Adult Reconstruction Department of Urology Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk USA Michael W Kattan Chairman Department of Quantitative Health Sciences Cleveland Clinic Foundation Ohio USA Louis R Kavoussi Chairman of Urology The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System Manhasset USA Eric A Klein Head Section of Urologic Oncology Glickman Urological Institute Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland USA W Marston Linehan Branch Chief Urologic Oncology Branch National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda USA Tom F Lue Vice Chair Department of Urology University of California, San Francisco San Francisco USA Harris M Nagler Chair Berger Department of Urology Beth Israel Medical Center New York USA David E Neal Professor of Surgical Oncology Department of Urology Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge UK J Curtis Nickel Professor of Urology Queen's University Department of Urology Kingston General Hospital Kingston Canada Makato Ohori Department of Urology Toyko Medical University Tokyo Japan Claus Roehrborn Chairman Department of Urology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas USA Mark A Rubin Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Pathology New York USA Anthony J Schaeffer Chairman Department of Urology Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University Chicago USA Claude Schulman Professor and Chairman Department of Urology University of Brussels Brussels Belgium Linda MD Shortliffe Chair Department of Urology Stanford University Medical Center Stanford USA Kevin Slawin Director The Baylor Prostate Center Baylor College of Medicine Houston USA Miguel Srougi Professor and Chairman Division of Urology Federal University of São Paulo São Paulo Brazil Cora N Sternberg Chairman Department of Medical Oncology San Camillo and Forlanini Hospitals Rome Italy Alan J Wein Professor and Chair Division of Urology University of Pennsylvania Health System Philadelphia USA