Letter to the Editor Regarding "COVID-19: A Time Like No Other in (the Department of) Neurological Surgery". Should We Broaden Surgical Indications to Preserve the Standard of Care in Spinal Metastases?

Affiliations

¹ Spine Surgery Unit, Humanitas Gradenigo Hospital, Turin, Italy; Department of Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini," Neurosurgery Unit, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. Electronic address: fabio.cofano@gmail.com.
² Department of Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini," Neurosurgery Unit, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
³ Unit of Neurosurgery, ICCS Città Studi, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Spine Surgery Unit, Humanitas Gradenigo Hospital, Turin, Italy.

Comment

Fabio Cofano et al. World Neurosurg. 2021 Jul.

. 2021 Jul:151:303-304.

doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.03.154.

¹ Spine Surgery Unit, Humanitas Gradenigo Hospital, Turin, Italy; Department of Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini," Neurosurgery Unit, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. Electronic address: fabio.cofano@gmail.com.
² Department of Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini," Neurosurgery Unit, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
³ Unit of Neurosurgery, ICCS Città Studi, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Spine Surgery Unit, Humanitas Gradenigo Hospital, Turin, Italy.

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COVID-19: A Time Like No Other in (the Department of) Neurological Surgery.
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