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Replacement of the bladder: Any news on the horizon?
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Department of Urology, University of Ulm, Neu-Ulm 89231,
Germany
Bladder, e21200063 https://doi.org/10.14440/bladder.0226
Submitted: 30 July 2025 | Accepted: 4 August 2025 | Published: 22 August 2025
© 2025 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Conflict of interest
Richard E. Hautmann is an Honorary Editor-in-Chief of this journal. The author declared that he has no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have influenced the work reported in this paper.
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