AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTION
Maccagnano: Project development; Data collection and management; Data analysis; Manuscript writing
Rocchini: Data analysis; Manuscript writing
Montanari: Manuscript editing
Conti: Manuscript editing
Contieri: Data collection and management
Bryan: Data analysis; Manuscript writing and editing
Hurle: Project development, Data analysis; Manuscript writing and editing
COMPLIANCE OF ETHICAL STANDARDS
Funding: none
Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Research involving Human Participants and/or Animals; Informed consent: The authors had permissions for both the use of survey and the publication of data by all the participants indicated in “Aknowledgements” sections.
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Davide Arcaniolo, MD. RTDA in Urology, Università degli Studi della Campania "L. Vanvitelli" – Naples, Italy.
Aldo Massimo Bocciardi, MD. Urology Unit, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Pierluigi Bove, MD. Professor of Urology. Urology Unit San Carlo di Nancy Hospital Rome - GVM Care and Research, Department of Surgery Tor Vergata, University of Rome. Rome, Italy.
Gian Maria Busetto, MD PhD. Department of Urology Sapienza Rome University, Policlinico Umberto I. Rome, Italy
Giulia Maria Castagna, MD. Section of Urology. ASST Melegnano e Martesana, Melegnano (Milan), Italy.
Renzo Colombo, MD. Department of Urology, IRCCS San Raffaele. Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy.
Roberto Contieri, MD. Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, Clinical and Research Hospital. Rozzano (Milan), Italy.
Federico Dehò, MD. Unit of Urology; ASST Sette Laghi-Circolo e Fondazione Macchi Hospital, Varese, Italy.
Paolo Fedelini, Md. Chairman of Urology. Department of Urology, A. Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy.
Maria Consiglia Ferriero, Department of Experimental Clinical Oncology, Urology Unit, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy.
Matteo Ferro, MD. Section of Urology. Istituto Oncologico Europeo (IEO), Milan, Italy.
Andrea Benedetto Galosi, MD, Chairman of Urology. Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
Vincenzo Giannone, MD. Section of Urology. Vito Fazzi Hospital, Lecce, Italy
Paolo Gontero, MD. Chairman Division of Urology Molinette Hospital, University of Torino School of Medicine, Department of Surgical Sciences. Torino, Italy.
Francesco Greco, MD. Section of Urology, Humanitas Gavazzeni, Bergamo, Italy.
Valerio Iacovelli, MD. Urology Unit San Carlo di Nancy Hospital Rome - GVM Care and Research, Department of Surgery Tor Vergata University of Rome. Rome, Italy.
Alberto Lapini, MD. Department of Urology, University of Florence, University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
Giuseppe Lucarelli, MD, PhD, University of Bari, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO), Urology, Andrology and Kidney Transplantation Unit. Bari, Italy.
Michele Marchioni, M.D. Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences
Università degli Studi "G.d'Annunzio" – Chieti, Italy
Andrea Mari, MD. Department of Urology, University of Florence, University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
Bruno Mazzoccoli, MD. Section of Urology. ASM Matera. Matera, Italy.
Luciano Nava, MD. Division of Urology. Humanitas San Pio X – Milan, Italy.
Giovanni Petralia, MD. Urology Unit, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Paolo Pompa, MD. Section of Urology , Pierangeli Clinics, Pescara, Italy
Angelo Porreca, MD. Department of Urology, Abano Terme Policlinic, Abano Terme (PD), Italy.
Giorgio I. Russo, MD, PhD, University of Catania. Catania, Italy
Vincenzo Serretta, MD. Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Urology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Francesco Soria, MD, FEBU. Division of Urology Molinette Hospital, University of Torino School of Medicine, Department of Surgical Sciences. Torino, Italy.
Elena Strada, MD. Urology Unit, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Nazareno Suardi, MD, FEBU. Department of Urology, IRCCS Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
Paolo Viganò, MD. Urology Unit, Bassini Hospital, Cinisello Balsamo, Italy
Alberto Carlo Vismara, MD. Division of Urology. Humanitas Gavazzeni, Bergamo, Italy.