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Editorial
. 2020 Jun;44(6):1695-1698.
doi: 10.1007/s00268-020-05501-6.

We Asked the Experts: Covid-19 Outbreak: Is There Still a Place for Scheduled Surgery? "Reflection from Pathophysiological Data"

Emmanuel Besnier  1   2 , Jean-Jacques Tuech  3   4 , Lilian Schwarz  3   4
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Editorial

We Asked the Experts: Covid-19 Outbreak: Is There Still a Place for Scheduled Surgery? "Reflection from Pathophysiological Data"

Emmanuel Besnier et al. World J Surg. 2020 Jun.
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Schematic representation of the main pathophysiological changes induced by both SARS-CoV-2 and surgery. DAMPs, damage associated molecular patterns; IL, interleukins; LT, lymphocytes T; LB, lymphocytes B; LNK, lymphocytes natural killers; TLR, tool like receptor; TNFα, tumor necrosis factor α
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Suggestion of a decisional algorithm for surgical scheduling in epidemic period of Covid-19
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