Keeping up to date with a variety of urology and medical journals can be an onerous task. Each year there is an ever-expanding number of medical journals and finding a way to sift through relevant information in medical journals and keep up to date is becoming increasingly difficult. In mainstream…
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Rotterdam Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator app
The widespread use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing has led to diagnostic difficulties for patients and urologists. The sensitivity and specificity characteristics of PSA are far from optimal. To try and improve the predictive accuracy of PSA measurements, nomograms and artificial neural networks have been created by many groups…
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Digital anatomy
Anatomy has been a cornerstone of medical and surgical education for hundreds of years. As an adjunct to traditional dissection based teaching and textbooks, this month’s digital review guides you through some internet based anatomy resources. 3D models Anatomy for urology, is available on anatomy.tv (http://www.anatomy.tv) or as a separate…
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Online cancer prediction tools
The prediction of any future event is fascinating and yet fraught with difficulty. Clinicians have always struggled with being able to accurately predict outcomes for patients and to balance the risks of any intervention. Traditionally, doctors relied on clinical judgment to predict outcomes but this has been shown to be…