Consensus guidelines for the management of patients with digestive neuroendocrine tumors: Why such guidelines and how we went about it

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 155-157

  Rindi, Guido ^a   De Herder, Wouter W ^b   O'Toole, Dermot ^c   Wiedenmann, Bertram ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM TUMOR; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONSENSUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 33847625870     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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