Nasal, pharyngeal and laryngeal endoscopy procedures during COVID-19 pandemic: available recommendations from national and international societies

Affiliations

¹ Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. dr.dlp@hotmail.it.
² Head and Neck Department, University of Salerno, Via G. Maggi 28, Roma, Salerno, Italy. dr.dlp@hotmail.it.
³ Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
⁴ Department of Sense Organs, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
⁶ Unit of Audiology and Phoniatrics, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy.
⁷ Surgical Sciences Department, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

Pietro De Luca et al. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;277(7):2151-2153.

doi: 10.1007/s00405-020-06028-1. Epub 2020 May 6.

¹ Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. dr.dlp@hotmail.it.
² Head and Neck Department, University of Salerno, Via G. Maggi 28, Roma, Salerno, Italy. dr.dlp@hotmail.it.
³ Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
⁴ Department of Sense Organs, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
⁶ Unit of Audiology and Phoniatrics, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy.
⁷ Surgical Sciences Department, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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