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Influence of COVID-19 confinement on the size of malignant skin tumours surgically removed at a Spanish hospital.
Conde-Taboada, A; Iglesias-Puzas, Á; Sirgado, A; Campos, L; Serrano, I; López-Bran, E.
Afiliação
  • Conde-Taboada A; Department of Dermatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
  • Iglesias-Puzas Á; Department of Dermatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
  • Sirgado A; Department of Dermatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
  • Campos L; Department of Dermatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
  • Serrano I; Methodological Support Unit for Research, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
  • López-Bran E; Department of Dermatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
Clin Exp Dermatol ; 47(3): 578-580, 2022 Mar.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34610172
The COVID-19 pandemic required people to confine themselves to their homes where possible, and disrupted normal hospital activities. We examine whether this lockdown generated changes in the size of the tumours. We compared the dimensions of the surgically removed malignant skin tumours from the first 150 patients treated after the confinement ended in Spain (22 May 2020) with those of the last 150 patients to receive such treatment before the confinement began (13 March 2020). Data on tumour surface area were collected from pathology reports. Overall, no significant difference was seen in the tumour sizes. However, among men, the tumours removed after confinement were significantly larger (P < 0.05). Controversy exists over how the reduction in the number of tumours diagnosed during lockdowns might have influenced the characteristics of tumours. In this study, no overall difference was seen in the size of the tumours removed, although those removed from men after confinement were larger.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Neoplasias Cutâneas / Quarentena Limite: Aged / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Neoplasias Cutâneas / Quarentena Limite: Aged / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article