Evidence-based defense of case reports in urology

Fariña-Pérez, L.A.

doi:10.1016/j.acuroe.2011.06.009

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However, clinical cases have always been one of the best reflections of medical and surgical practice at each time, showing better than other studies, or at least in a more simple and didactic way, the process of decision making for a patient with specific clinical symptoms. As in all specialties, urological clinical cases are important to spread the best current practice and contribute to its progress; they make it possible to generate new hypotheses or contradict previously existing ones; and they are used to describe diseases or new disease associations (the most recent and known case in general medicine is AIDS) and to report the adverse effects of treatments or interventions.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005">1</a>Recent literature is full of examples of how clinical cases sometimes lead to significant advances in the understanding of some diseases, especially the least frequent, in the understanding of the mechanisms of becoming ill, in the development of new techniques, and in the knowledge of medical and surgical complications.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0010">2,3</a> The latter is of the utmost importance in a time when minimally invasive, laparoscopic, and robotic surgeries are changing the surgical specialties completely, and new tools and technical variants with potential complications and little known commitments for patients’ safety are described every day.If it were true that only what we have seen is recognized, and we rarely remember what we have read, the reading of cases with particular teachings is one of the best lessons to try to avoid repeating mistakes. The bibliography contains numerous other specific reasons for the surgery, in order to continue publishing interesting single case reports and case series, particularly when trying to evaluate new technologies.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015">3</a>As a reflection which I consider right, this rejection of urological clinical cases coincides with the launch – by the publisher responsible for the edition of Actas Urológicas Españolas – of the journal, Elsevier Medical Case Reports, with the striking slogan “State your case. 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Actas Urológicas Españolas is an international journal dedicated to urological diseases and renal transplant. It has been the official publication of the Spanish Urology Association since 1974 and of the American Urology Confederation since 2008. Its articles cover all aspects related to urology. Actas Urológicas Españolas, governed by the peer review system (double blinded), is published online in Spanish and English. Consequently, manuscripts may be sent in Spanish or English and bidirectional free cost translation will be provided. It has high visibility and accessibility and is found in the most important data bases, Medline/Pubmed, Emabase, JCR, Ïndice Médico Español, Índice bibliográfico Español en Ciencias de la Salud (IBECS), Cuiden, Dialnet, Hinari, Scopus, Google Scholar.

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