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. 2020 Sep;30(9):5220-5221.
doi: 10.1007/s00330-020-06961-z. Epub 2020 May 26.

Non-COVID-19 emergencies: where have all the patients gone?

Tom Boeken  1 , Alice Le Berre  1 , Anne Mebazaa  1 , Isabelle Boulay-Coletta  1 , Jérôme Hodel  1 , Marc Zins  2
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Non-COVID-19 emergencies: where have all the patients gone?

Tom Boeken et al. Eur Radiol. 2020 Sep.

Abstract

• Early in the pandemic, numbers of patients undergoing non-COVID-19 emergent CTs dropped sharply but diagnostic yield did not increase, suggesting potentially undiagnosed emergencies in patients not seen in healthcare institutions.

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