id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-343490-94vkfrtw Handaya, Adeodatus Yuda Covid-19 mimicking symptoms in emergency gastrointestinal surgery cases during pandemic: a case series 2020-10-24 .txt text/plain 1396 103 53 All patients need to be examined for COVID-19, including in digestive surgery emergency cases. In this paper, we report four digestive surgery emergency cases with clinical and radiological findings similar to COVID-19. CASE PRESENTATION: We report four digestive surgery emergency cases admitted with fever and cough symptoms. DISCUSSION: For all four cases, the surgeries were done with strict COVID-19 protocol which included patient screening, examination, laboratory assessment, rapid test screening, and RT-PCR testing. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways patients are admitted and treated, including in emergency digestive surgery cases. In this paper, we aimed to report four digestive surgery emergency cases admitted with fever and cough symptoms, mimicking COVID-19. We report four cases of emergency digestive surgery cases with COVID-19 symptoms of cough and fever. Emergency surgery in digestive surgery cases with COVID-19 signs and symptoms can be done with strict examination, assessment, and protocol. ./cache/cord-343490-94vkfrtw.txt ./txt/cord-343490-94vkfrtw.txt