In the original submission authors included a Conflict of Interest statement in their cover letter. Due to a procedural error the statement was not included in the final publication.
The disclosure statement in full follows here:
Given his role as an Editor-in-Chief and co-author of this paper, A. Shokeir, certifies that the journal is partially supported by Karl Storz GmbH. That support had no influence on the peer-review of this paper, which was entirely independent of Karl Storz.
Notes
Peer review under responsibility of Arab Association of Urology.