title: [30th anniversary of the Urology Clinic at the Dérer University Hospital in Bratislava--Kramáre (1968-1998)].
abstract: Description of a decisive part of the results of the Department of Urology reached in the period 1968-1998, and of the conditions under which these results have been obtained. The results refer particularly to the field of oncology, transplantology, pediatric urology, urolithiasis, andrology, urological gynaecology and some novel surgical procedures. The prerequisite for accomplishing the programme of the Department of Urology successfully was its location in a modern hospital with possibilities of wide multidisciplinary co-operation, mutual linking of medical and scientific work, team work including creation of working groups for essential areas of work, stays of staff members at foreign clinics after predefining their fields of study, and life-long education of the staff by means of postgraduate studies. The paper summarizes only the most important results of the Department of Urology, which reached a level corresponding to contemporary international trends and, hereby, also international recognition. The quoted literature corresponds to the bearings of the paper as well. Only those papers are referred to which enable the reader to check the data given in the text. The reason for such a balance is not only the 30th anniversary of the Department of Urology in a modern hospital but also the fact that for two decades before 1968 the Department had no possibilities for multilateral activities because of its isolated location and its limited technical and personal facilities. (Fig. 12, Ref. 114.)
authors.affiliation: Dpt of Urology, Derer's University Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zvara
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D018154:Slovakia; D014572:Urology / Q000266:history*