Collaborative research networks as a platform for virtual multidisciplinary, international approach to managing difficult clinical cases: An example from the upper tract urothelial carcinoma collaboration

European Urology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 943-945

  Xylinas, Evanguelos ^a,b   Rouprêt, Morgan ^a,c   Kluth, Luis ^a,d   Scherr, Douglas S ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Paris Descartes University ^*  (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

AGED; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE CONTROL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; KIDNEY PELVIS CARCINOMA; LETTER; MALE; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL NEPHROURETERECTOMY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CONSENSUS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REMOTE CONSULTATION; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEPATHOLOGY; URETER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 84867033788     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2012.08.022     Document Type: Letter

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