Paediatric urology has come of age over the past few years, with it now being formally recognised as a distinct subspecialty of both urology and paediatric surgery within the European Union. In parallel with this development there has been a rapid expansion in the number of paediatric urologists practising in the United Kingdom. With this increasing specialisation there is a risk of isolation, and developments in the field of urology may go unrecognised in the broader areas of paediatrics, paediatric surgery, and urology. Therefore there is a need for publications to highlight recent developments. The non-specialist rarely reads major reference textbooks (of which there were two published in …