An effect of the COVID-19 pandemic: Significantly more complicated appendicitis due to delayed presentation of patients!

AIMS OF THE STUDY: The novel coronavirus pandemic has affected emergency department consultations for surgical pathologies. The aim of our study was to compare the number of acute appendicitis cases and the proportion of complicated appendicitis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: We r...

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Autores principales: Burgard, Marie, Cherbanyk, Floryn, Nassiopoulos, Konstantinos, Malekzadeh, Sonaz, Pugin, François, Egger, Bernhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8148360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34032800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249171

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8148360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34032800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249171

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