Appendicitis during the COVID-19 lockdown: results of a multicenter analysis in Germany

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed medical care worldwide. General surgery has been affected in elective procedures, yet the implications for emergency surgery are unclear. The current study analyzes the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020 on appendicitis treatment in Germany.

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Main Authors:	Willms, Arnulf (Author) , Oldhafer, Karl J. (Author) , Conze, Sophie (Author) , Thasler, Wolfgang E. (Author) , von Schassen, Christian (Author) , Hauer, Thorsten (Author) , Huber, Tobias (Author) , Germer, Christoph-Thomas (Author) , Günster, Simone (Author) , Bulian, Dirk R. (Author) , Hirche, Zarah (Author) , Filser, Jörg (Author) , Stavrou, Gregor A. (Author) , Reichert, Martin (Author) , Malkomes, Patrizia (Author) , Seyfried, Steffen (Author) , Ludwig, Tobias (Author) , Hillebrecht, Hans C. (Author) , Pantelis, Dimitrios (Author) , Brunner, Stefanie (Author) , Rost, Wilm (Author) , Lock, Johan F. (Author)
Format:	Article (Journal)
Language:	English
Published:	7 February 2021
In:	Langenbeck's archives of surgery Year: 2021, Volume: 406, Issue: 2, Pages: 367-375
ISSN:	1435-2451
DOI:	10.1007/s00423-021-02090-3
Online Access:	Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-021-02090-3
Author Notes:	Arnulf G. Willms, Karl J. Oldhafer, Sophie Conze, Wolfgang E. Thasler, Christian von Schassen, Thorsten Hauer, Tobias Huber, Christoph-Thomas Germer, Simone Günster, Dirk R. Bulian, Zarah Hirche, Jörg Filser, Gregor A. Stavrou, Martin Reichert, Patrizia Malkomes, Steffen Seyfried, Tobias Ludwig, Hans C. Hillebrecht, Dimitrios Pantelis, Stefanie Brunner, Wilm Rost, Johan F. Lock, Karl J. Oldhafer, Thorsten Hauer, Arnulf Willms, Christoph-Thomas Germer, Wolfgang E. Thasler, Johan F. Lock, Christian Jurowich, Jörg Filser, Julia Gozzer, Merten Hommann, Daniel Kaemmerer, Jörn Gröne, Lope Estévez Schwarz, Niels Huschitt, Thorsten Hauer, Alexander Abazid, Dimitrios Pantelis, Jörg C. Kalff, Martin von Websky, Philipp Lingohr, Philipp Feodorovici, Maximilian Schmeding, Jonas Linnemann, Claus Franke, Wolfram T. Knoefel, Georg Flügen, Robert Grützmann, Henriette Golcher, Wolf O. Bechstein, Andreas Schnitzbauer, Patrizia Malkomes, Stefan Fichtner-Feigl, Dominik Jauch, Hans C. Hillebrecht, Katica Krajinovic, Simone Günster, Winfried Padberg, Andreas Hecker, Martin Reichert, Gero Puhl, Henning Albrecht, Dominik Richter, Karl Oldhafer, Valery Danwe Koukreo, Asad Kutup, Elmar Mehring, A. Ghadim Khani, Dean Bogoevski, Johannes Erbes, Stefan Nikolovski, Wilm Rost, Christian von Schassen, Jörg Pelz, Stefan Maier, Christoph Berghammer, Sabine Michling, Robert Schwab, Arnulf Willms, Christoph Güsgen, Sophie Conze, Dirk R. Bulian, Markus M. Heiss, Claus F. Eisenberger, Christiane Bruns, Stefanie Brunner, Thomas Wilhelm, Anke Esmann, Ines Gockel, Martin Lacher, Nicole Kreuser, Nikolaus von Dercks, Sandra Strauß, Stefan Willis, Zarah Hirche, Martin Stockmann, Adrian Vegue Alvarez, Hauke Lang, Tobias Huber, Nicolas Wachter, Christian Boedecker, Christoph Reissfelder, Steffen Seyfried, Carsten N. Gutt, Robert C. Grabensee, Roberta Birkas-Kovats, Wolfgang Thasler, Stephan Kaaden, Ingo Gerstmann, Jürgen Tepel, Clemens Schafmayer, Alexander Hendricks, Tobias Ludwig, Gregor A. Stavrou, Mahmoud Jabal, Kira Keller, Detlef Meyer, Andreas Schmidt, Konrad Poker, Roland Schmidt, Christian Beltzer, Ralf Wilke, Ulrich Steger, Christoph-Thomas Germer, Armin Wiegering, Johan Friso Lock, Agnes Treutlein, CAMIN Study Group