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Observational Study
. 2020 Dec;122(7):1293-1295.
doi: 10.1002/jso.26146. Epub 2020 Aug 12.

Value of preoperative testing for SARS-CoV-2 for elective surgeries in a cancer center during the peak of pandemic in Brazil

Samuel Aguiar Junior  1 , Glauco Baiocchi  1 , João Pedreira Duprat  1 , Felipe José Fernandez Coimbra  1 , Fabiana Baroni Makdissi  1 , José Guilherme Vartanian  1 , Stenio de Cassio Zequi  1 , Jefferson Luiz Gross  1 , Suely Nakagawa  1 , Guilherme Yazbek  1 , Raquel Bussolotti  2 , Ivan Avelino França E Silva  3 , Luiz Paulo Kowalski  1
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Observational Study

Value of preoperative testing for SARS-CoV-2 for elective surgeries in a cancer center during the peak of pandemic in Brazil

Samuel Aguiar Junior et al. J Surg Oncol. 2020 Dec.
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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

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Results of the preoperative test‐based screening for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), applied to 540 asymptomatic patients, scheduled to be operated in May 2020
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