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Saracco R.
Appendectomy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: a multicenter ambispective cohort study by the Italian Society of Endoscopic Surgery and new technologies (the CRAC study)
AbstractMajor surgical societies advised using non-operative management of appendicitis and suggested against laparoscopy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The hypothesis is that a significant reduction in the number of emergent appendectomies was observed during the pandemic, restricted to complex cases. The study aimed to analyse emergent surgical appendectomies during pandemic on a national basis and compare it to the same period of the previous year. This is a multicentre, retrospective, observational study investigating the outcomes of patients undergoing emergent appendectomy in March–April 2019 vs March–April 2020. The primary outcome was the number of appendectomies performed, classifie…
Correction: ERas and COLorectal endoscopic surgery: an Italian society for endoscopic surgery and new technologies (SICE) national report (Surgical Endoscopy, (2022), 10.1007/s00464-022-09212-y)
This article was updated to correct Nicolò Fabbri's name in the listing of the ERCOLE Study Group (in Acknowledgments).