36th World Congress of Endourology, Paris, France, September 20-23, 2018 Abstracts

This meeting, which focuses on basic science-oncology, contains approximately 220 oral abstracts and lists 1078 poster presentations in English. Topics include multiparametric MRI features identify aggressive prostate cancer at the phenotypic and transcriptomic level, renal cancer cell carcinoma detection using targeted plasma metabolic profiling, urinary tract models for urologic research applications, loss of function dysbiosis in the urinary tract of patients with urinary stone disease, and urinary oxalate excretion in obese mouse model. Other topics are treatment of ureteral strictures with memokath stent, dynamic real-time microscopy of bladder neoplasms using confocal laser endomicroscopy, and characterization of intracalyceal pressure during ureteroscopy.