[Scientific activities of the Spanish Urology Association gathered in periodic publications].
OBJECTIVE
From the constitution of Urology Spanish Association establishes in its bylaws the need to possess an own organ of diffusion; along its existence several publications have realized this function, in a semiofficial way some and official others. One tries to locate the realized activities and the work led to end by its members, to know what medical magazines they have gathered and which have taken officially its representation, with the purpose of valuing the importance that has had in the development of the Spanish Urology.


METHODS
We check the different periodic publications with medical content edited in Madrid from 1911, in we might locate works or news on the Association and the labor effected by its components.


RESULTS
We find information in ten periodic different publications, five contemplate the content of the National Congresses and five gather the periodic activities; its secretary general has had during this period, of other five mass media to inform the partners and two medical weeklies notify journalistically of the majority of the acts in the first half of the XXth century; in sum up four different magazines have taken the title of official organ.


CONCLUSIONS
We think that lagoons of time do not exist to gather the activities realized by Urology Spanish Association in its ninety five years of history, its study allows us to obtain a complete valuation and to establish the importance that has had in the development of the Spanish Urology.
Pérez Albacete
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Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia. mariano.perez2@carm.es
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