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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Thyroid Surgery in a University Hospital in South Korea.
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- A 6-Year Retrospective Study in Surgery Patients with Thyroid Diseases in Mureș County, Romania, Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Thyroid Cancer Surgery.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Article
- Changes in management of head and neck malignancies during the COVID-19 pandemic.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2024Article
- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on thyroidectomy for malignant diseases in high-volume referral centers.Updates in surgery · 2024Article
- The effect of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on the management of differentiated thyroid cancer in Turkey: a single tertiary centre experience.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024Article
- Papillary Thyroid Cancer Trends in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is There a Shift toward a More Aggressive Entity?Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Comparison of Clinical and Pathological Characteristics of Thyroid Cancer Surgery in the Pandemic Era.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2024Article
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- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on thyroid nodular disease: a retrospective study in a single center in the western part of Romania.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gyne-Oncological Treatment-A Retrospective Single-Center Analysis of a German University Hospital with 30,525 Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed healthcare systems around the world. Medical personnel concentrated on infectious disease management and treatments for non-emergency diseases and scheduled surgeries were delayed. We aimed to investigate the change in the severity of thyroid cancer before and after the outbreak of COVID-19 in Korea. We collected three years of data (2019, 2020, and 2021) on patients who received thyroid surgery in a university hospital in South Korea and grouped them as "Before COVID-19", "After COVID-19 1-year" and "After COVID-19 2-years". The total number of annual outpatients declined significantly after the outbreak of COVID-19 in both new (1303, 939, and 1098 patients) and follow-up patients (5584, 4609, and 4739 patients). Clinical characteristics, including age, sex, BMI, preoperative cytology results, surgical extent, and final pathologic diagnosis, were not significantly changed after the outbreak of COVID-19. However, the number of days from the first visit to surgery was significantly increased (38.3 ± 32.2, 58.3 ± 105.2, 47.8 ± 124.7 days,
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