title: [Urología Clínica, bulletin of the Urology Service of Dr. Sánchez Covisa of the Hospital Provincial of Madrid, edited between 1928 and 1936].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Make known the important urological work of Sanchez Covisa, third chief of the Urology Service of the Hospital Provincial de Madrid, who beginning in 1928 was able to transform and convert it into possibly the more outstanding one of its time in Spain, comparable to the best hospitals in foreign countries.
  
  
  METHODS
  We have analyzed the contents of the publication Urología Clínica, that collect the changes introduced and the work carried out in said service between 1928 and 1936, reflected in a careful yearly statistics on the care, operations and mortality in addition to the articles published by the members of the Service together with a short bibliographic review of each one.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In 1914, he became chief of the Service, and after 14 years, was able to overcome all the obstacles and to extend and modernize the surgery rooms, hospitalization wards and examination resources. In 1931, once the changes were made, he began important clinical and scientific activity, and constituted one of the principal urological schools of the first half of the XXth century in our country.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prestige reached by the Urology Unit of the Hospital Provincial of Madrid attracted patients from all over Spain, many of them treated or operated on in their place of origin. This explains why the condition was complicated with some acceptable results. The quality and honesty of the Urology unit justify its qualification. The works in general are mere reviews and those regarding surgery of the uretero-intestinal shunt stand out.
authors.affiliation: Urólogos senior, Oficina de Historia, Asociación Española de Urología, Spain. mariano.perez2@carm.es
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pérez-Albacete
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saiz
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006786:Hospitals, Urban / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D013030:Spain; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000266:history / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014572:Urology / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends