COVID-19 and its impact on endoscopy services: what is the threshold for missed malignant diagnosis?

Gut. 2021 Jul;70(7):1414-1415. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-322769. Epub 2020 Aug 26.

Authors

Tony He¹, Michael B MacIsaac¹, Simon J Hume¹, Alexander J Thompson^{1

2}, Julien D Schulberg^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected].

PMID: 32847844
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-322769

No abstract available

Keywords: colonoscopy; colorectal cancer; endoscopy; gastrointestinal cancer; gastroscopy.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Colonoscopy
Humans
Neoplasms*
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
United Kingdom