Gynecological surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey

Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2020 Oct;151(1):141-144. doi: 10.1002/ijgo.13292. Epub 2020 Jul 24.

Authors

Esra Keles¹, Serkan Akis¹, Ugur Kemal Ozturk¹, Sefik Eser Ozyurek¹, Murat Api¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Zeynep Kamil Women's and Children's Disease Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey.

Abstract

Surgery can continue safely during the pandemic in a specialty hospital that does not accept COVID‐19‐positive patients.

Keywords: 2019-nCoV; COVID-19; Coronavirus; Gynecological oncology; SARS-CoV-2; Surgery.