๐ COVID-19 and Urology: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature.
Covid-19 pandemic is the newest and biggest global health threat worldwide. Medical and surgical priorities were changed dramatically at the time of this pandemic. Postponement for all outpatient and elective activities to save facilities and resources for urgent cases and Covid-19 patients was adopted by most of hospitals in the affected countries. Over the coming weeks healthcare workers including urologists will be facing increasingly difficult challenges and consequently they should adopt sufficient protection strategies to guard against infection when dealing with COVID-19 patients. In this review we discussed the impact of Covid-19 on global health, urinary tract and uro-oncologic surgeries . Additionally, we reviewed some of the available recommendations reported on oncological surgeries practice during this pandemic.
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๐ COVID-19 (1240)
๐ Coronavirus (5664)
๐ Pandemic (484)
๐ SARS-COV-2 (551)
๐ Urology (4)
๐ healthcare workers (76)
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๐ค Puliatti, Stefano
๐ค Eissa, Ahmed
๐ค Eissa, Radwa
๐ค Amato, Marco
๐ค Mazzone, Elio
๐ค Dell'Oglio, Paolo
๐ค Sighinolfi, Maria Chiara
๐ค Zoeir, Ahmed
๐ค Micali, Salvatore
๐ค Bianchi, Giampaolo
๐ค Patel, Vipul
๐ค Wiklund, Peter
๐ค Coelho, Rafael F
๐ค Bernhard, Jean-Christophe
๐ค Dasgupta, Prokar
๐ค Mottrie, Alexandre
๐ค Rocco, Bernardo
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โฐ 2020
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๐ BJU Int
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