1. How we provided appropriate breast imaging practices in the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy.
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Pesapane, Filippo, Penco, Silvia, Rotili, Anna, Nicosia, Luca, Bozzini, Anna, Trentin, Chiara, Dominelli, Valeria, Priolo, Francesca, Farina, Mariagiorgia, Marinucci, Irene, Meroni, Stefano, Abbate, Francesca, Meneghetti, Lorenza, Latronico, Antuono, Pizzamiglio, Maria, and Cassano, Enrico
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COVID-19 pandemic , *BREAST imaging , *COVID-19 , *EMERGENCY management , *BREAST - Abstract
Italy has one of the highest COVID-19 clinical burdens in the world and Lombardy region accounts for more than half of the deaths of the country. Since COVID-19 is a novel disease, early impactful decisions are often based on experience of referral centres. We report the re-organisation which our institute (IEO, European Institute of Oncology), a cancer referral centre in Lombardy, went through to make our breast-imaging division pandemic-proof. Using personal-protective-equipment and innovative protocols, we provided essential breast-imaging procedures during COVID-19 pandemic without compromising cancer outcomes. The emergency management and infection-control-measures implemented in our division protected both the patients and the staff, making this experience useful for other radiology departments dealing with the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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