id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-258293-7q9zj8c2 Marini, Alessandra Letter to the Editor Regarding 'Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Neurosurgery: Literature and Neurosurgical Societies Recommendations Update' 2020-05-26 .txt text/plain 921 52 46 with intracranial or spinal oncological pathology (rapidly evolving intracranial hypertension with deteriorating 4 state of consciousness, acute hydrocephalus, spinal cord compression with rapid tetra or paraparesis); Class A + 5 are the patients who requirie treatment within a maximum of 7-10 days, with intracranial tumors with mass 6 effect or with progressive neurological deficit, without deterioration of consciousness and patients requiring 7 treatment within a month, namely Class A, with neurological alteration or suspected malignant lesion, related 8 This resulted in progression of the neurological 4 symptoms, without an early neurosurgical evaluation, until the onset of acute deficit which actually led to the 5 emergency room access. symptoms were consciousness alteration and seizures; in our survey approximately 10,7 % of the acute-onset 0 patients reported to have previously refused the surgical treatment, in the weeks before, correlated to concerns 1 about the hospitalization during the Coronavirus emergency. In conclusion, during the COVID-19 pandemic the neurosurgical urgent and emergency onset of neuro-6 oncological cases increased, in comparison to 2019. Illustrative Table regarding the epidemiological variations in neuro-oncological patients' onset during the COVID-19 crisis ./cache/cord-258293-7q9zj8c2.txt ./txt/cord-258293-7q9zj8c2.txt