id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-009749-mdkuf5bd Dobran, Mauro Letter to the editor by Dobran Mauro, Paracino Riccardo, and Iacoangeli Maurizio regarding “Neurosurgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: update from Lombardy, northern Italy.” Zoia C, Bongetta D, Veiceschi P, Cenzato M, Di Meco F, Locatelli D, Boeris D, Fontanella MM. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2020 Mar 28. doi: 10.1007/s00701-020-04305-w 2020-04-17 .txt text/plain 719 42 47 title: Letter to the editor by Dobran Mauro, Paracino Riccardo, and Iacoangeli Maurizio regarding "Neurosurgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: update from Lombardy, northern Italy." Zoia C, Bongetta D, Veiceschi P, Cenzato M, Di Meco F, Locatelli D, Boeris D, Fontanella MM. Fontanella "Neurosurgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: update from Lombardy, northern Italy" [4] . In Italy since February 2020 spread a massive coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with a great number of infected patients and deaths. To contrast the infection spread on March 2020 in Italy was declared the lockdown and the neurosurgical activity of the Department of Neurosurgery AOU Ancona-Italy was centered on emergency and oncological pathology. In nonhospitalized patients admitted to hospital for urgent surgery, a swab test is performed but, because of the long time for its result, when a surgical procedure is urgent a pulmonary CT scan is performed to search for a COVID-19 pneumonia. Neurosurgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: update from Lombardy, northern Italy ./cache/cord-009749-mdkuf5bd.txt ./txt/cord-009749-mdkuf5bd.txt