Introduction of Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Challenge for Now, an Opportunity for the Future

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urogenital Cancer, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: Sosnowski@pib-nio.pl.
² Department of Urogenital Cancer, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
³ Department of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Urology, Institut Paoli-Calmettes Cancer Centre, Marseille, France.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, Augusta University - Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA.
⁶ Oncology Urology Unit, Department of Urology, Fundació Puigvert, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Editorial

Roman Sosnowski et al. Eur Urol. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;78(6):820-821.

doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2020.07.007. Epub 2020 Jul 14.

¹ Department of Urogenital Cancer, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: Sosnowski@pib-nio.pl.
² Department of Urogenital Cancer, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
³ Department of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Urology, Institut Paoli-Calmettes Cancer Centre, Marseille, France.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, Augusta University - Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA.
⁶ Oncology Urology Unit, Department of Urology, Fundació Puigvert, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

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Rodriguez Socarrás M, Loeb S, Teoh JY, Ribal MJ, Bloemberg J, Catto J, N'Dow J, Van Poppel H, Gómez Rivas J. Rodriguez Socarrás M, et al. Eur Urol. 2020 Dec;78(6):812-819. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2020.06.031. Epub 2020 Jul 10. Eur Urol. 2020. PMID: 32654801 Free PMC article. Review.

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