The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on skin cancer surgery in the United Kingdom: a national, multi-centre, prospective cohort study and survey of Plastic Surgeons

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Whiston Hospital, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Warrington Road, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 5DR, UK.
² Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Praed Street, Paddington, London, W2 1NY, UK.
³ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, B15 2TH, UK.
⁴ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, SL2 4HL, UK.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7FY, UK.

Grant S Nolan et al. Br J Surg. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;107(12):e598-e600.

doi: 10.1002/bjs.12047. Epub 2020 Sep 16.

¹ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Whiston Hospital, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Warrington Road, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 5DR, UK.
² Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Praed Street, Paddington, London, W2 1NY, UK.
³ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, B15 2TH, UK.
⁴ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, SL2 4HL, UK.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7FY, UK.

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