key: cord-263616-igprqlqr authors: Hamid, Hytham K. S. title: Considerations for transanal surgery during COVID‐19 pandemic date: 2020-07-15 journal: J Surg Oncol DOI: 10.1002/jso.26085 sha: doc_id: 263616 cord_uid: igprqlqr nan To the Editor, Elective colorectal cancer surgery at the oncologic hub of Lombardy inside a pandemic COVID-19 area Gastrointestinal manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection and virus load in fecal samples from the Hong Kong cohort and systematic review and meta-analysis Prolonged presence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in faecal samples Evidence for gastrointestinal infection of SARS-CoV-2 Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in different types of clinical specimens Isolation of 2019-nCoV from a stool specimen of a laboratory-confirmed case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Detection of novel coronavirus by RT-PCR in stool specimen from asymptomatic child Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a paucisymptomatic patient: epidemiological and clinical challenge in settings with limited community transmission