Turkish Journal of Surgery

Yazarlar: Muhammet Ka Çolakoğlu, Volkan Öter, Erdal Birol Bostancı, Mehmet Mahir Özmen, Kaya Sarıbeyoğlu

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DOI:10.5578/turkjsurg.4812

Anahtar Kelimeler:COVID-19,Coronavirus,Pandemic,Digestive system,Cancer,Malign

Özet: Since December 2019, the world has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic, and health workers are at the forefront of the fight. Surgeons also fulfill their duty; however, elective cases had to be postponed in order to use resources appropriately in the fight against coronavirus. Although benign elective surgical procedures can be postponed to a distant time during this pandemic, surgical interventions for urgent and life-threatening situations are mandatory to perform but the main uncertainty among surgeons is about cancer patients. In this paper, we aimed to present a suggestion to the surgeon about how to manage digestive system cancers during pandemic in the light of the published articles and guidelines.

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