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Comment
. 2020 Jul:79:141-142.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.05.055. Epub 2020 May 23.

The precautions required for the safe return of elective surgery - a letter to the editor in response to "Impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on surgical practice - Part 2 (surgical prioritisation)ˮ

Shuliang Oliver Cheng  1 , Aurelia Liu  2
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The precautions required for the safe return of elective surgery - a letter to the editor in response to "Impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on surgical practice - Part 2 (surgical prioritisation)ˮ

Shuliang Oliver Cheng et al. Int J Surg. 2020 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Colorectal; Coronavirus; Elective surgery; General surgery; Obstetrics; Oncological; Orthopaedics; PPE; SARS-CoV-2; Surgery; Testing; Trauma; Vascular.

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