COVID-19 and its impact on endoscopy services: what is the threshold for missed malignant diagnosis?

Tony He¹, Michael B MacIsaac¹, Simon J Hume¹, Alexander J Thompson^{1

2}, Julien D Schulberg^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia julien.schulberg@svha.org.au.

Comment

Tony He et al. Gut. 2021 Jul.

. 2021 Jul;70(7):1414-1415.

doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-322769. Epub 2020 Aug 26.

Tony He¹, Michael B MacIsaac¹, Simon J Hume¹, Alexander J Thompson^{1

2}, Julien D Schulberg^{3

2}

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia julien.schulberg@svha.org.au.

No abstract available

Keywords: colonoscopy; colorectal cancer; endoscopy; gastrointestinal cancer; gastroscopy.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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