id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-325833-gn4ftbzo Lepre, Luca Acute care surgery and post‐operative COVID‐19 pneumonia: a surgical and environmental challenge 2020-05-04 .txt text/plain 813 62 50 3, 4 A report from Iran about peri-operative impact of COVID-19 in patients undergoing elective benign surgery showed a high fatality rate. 5 Emergency departments continue to take care of patients with acute diseases, some of those requiring urgent surgery. Starting from post-operative day (POD) 3, temperature >38 was detected without any other symptom. The fever persisted and at POD 14 thoracic CT scan detected bilateral consolidations mainly at the inferior lobes, with interstitial pattern, as showed in Figure 3 , suggestive for COVID-19 infection. This report highlights the possibility of COVID-19 infection during the post-operative course of patients admitted for emergency surgical procedures. Correlation of chest CT and RT-PCR testing in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China: a report of 1014 cases Thoracic computed tomography scan at post-operative day 14 showing bilateral interstitial pneumonia ./cache/cord-325833-gn4ftbzo.txt ./txt/cord-325833-gn4ftbzo.txt