Increased Incidence of Perforated Appendicitis in Children During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Bavarian Multi-Center Study

• Main Authors: Frank-Mattias Schäfer (Author), Johannes Meyer (Author), Stephan Kellnar (Author), Jakob Warmbrunn (Author), Tobias Schuster (Author), Stefanie Simon (Author), Thomas Meyer (Author), Julia Platzer (Author), Jochen Hubertus (Author), Sigurd T. Seitz (Author), Christian Knorr (Author), Maximilian Stehr (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: Since early 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic and statutory preventive reorganization of treatment capacities with cancellation of elective surgery as well as curfew regulations led to vastly decreased utilization of primary health care.Materials and Methods: To assess whether there are negat...