Experience in the surgical treatment of breast cancer during COVID-19. January 2020 – December 2021
Journal: Advances in Medicine and Engineering Interdisciplinary Research DOI: 10.32629/ameir.v4i2.5253
Abstract
The experience in the Breast Pathology Service of the Padre Machado SOH IVSS Oncological Hospital, during the years 2020-2021 of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact on the decrease in the activities of outpatient consultations and the elective surgeries, and the measures that we were taken to continue attending the patients diagnosed with the breast cancer are presented.
Keywords
cancer; breast; pandemic; COVID-19; surgery
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resumption of elective surgery. Am J Surg. 2021;221: 49-52.
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