Head and neck surgery during COVID-19

Thirty-two Head and Neck cancer patients were operated by surgical team of the Indian Institute of Head and Neck Oncology (IIHNO) in a period ranging from May 2020 to the first week of December 2020. Surgical procedures ranged from surgery for tongue cancer, resection of cancers of the oral mucosa/c...

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Autores principales: Dharkar, Digpal, Namdev, Laxmi Narayan, Moses, Sonia, Soni, Ravi, Verma, Suresh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2021
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7847762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33552941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-021-02401-6
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Sumario:Thirty-two Head and Neck cancer patients were operated by surgical team of the Indian Institute of Head and Neck Oncology (IIHNO) in a period ranging from May 2020 to the first week of December 2020. Surgical procedures ranged from surgery for tongue cancer, resection of cancers of the oral mucosa/cheek (with or without reconstruction), as well as surgery for paranasal cancers and thyroid cancers, with an average duration of 3 h for the procedures. This article reviews this experience during the peak of covid pandemic regarding the approaches adopted by the team of the IIHNO, a flagship project of the Indore Cancer Foundation, a public charitable trust.

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