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cord-306999-bedygxjs	Kurihara, Hayato	Authors' response: Surgery in the coronavirus disease 2019 phase 2 Italian scenario: Lessons learned in northern Italy spoke hospitals	2020-07-01		.txt	text/plain	1265	76	54	• We continue, during this pandemic event, to face different surgical scenarios, emergent, urgent, and elective (particularly cancer related), and we continue to use laparoscopy (in coronavirus disease patients too) when the laparoscopic technique is recommended and widely recognized. Despite HIVand HBV being blood-borne viruses, laparoscopic surgery is being performed in HIV and HBV patients for many years, and no clear demonstration is available of viral transmission through the pneumoperitoneum or surgical smoke. For these reasons, we do not believe that results from the available literature can be extrapolated to the COVID-19 pandemic as to justify the current too restrictive guidelines on laparoscopic surgery against the evident and well-known and evidence-based advantages of laparoscopy with respect to the open approach in many fields of surgery. 1 At the end of their letter, the authors point out that "resources and expertise are widely available" during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak and a restrictive use of laparoscopy would have been acceptable only in a war scenario.	./cache/cord-306999-bedygxjs.txt	./txt/cord-306999-bedygxjs.txt