Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on bone and soft tissue tumor treatment: A single-institution study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a great deal of damage to daily medical care. We investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on bone and soft tissue tumor treatment at our hospital.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective comparative study of two groups of patients at Osaka City University Hospital during the period of increasing COVID-19 infections (February-December 2020, group C) and the same period the previous year (February- December 2019, group NC). Clinical data, including patient's age, gender, type of tumor, neoplasms, number of surgical cases for inpatients and outpatients, operation time, use of implants, length of hospital stay, inpatient hospital costs, number of inpatients receiving anticancer drugs, and postoperative c

SUBMITTER: Ban Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10124828 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature