1. Foreign-body Ingestions in Children During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Pediatric Referral Center
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A. Pane, Caterina Rigazio, Fabrizio Gennari, Pier Luigi Calvo, Federico Scottoni, Fabio Cisarò, and Antonio Pizzol
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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Referral ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,business.industry ,Brief Report ,COVID-19 ,Mean age ,foreign-body ingestion ,medicine.disease ,Observational period ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Referral center ,Foreign body ,button batteries ,business - Abstract
In February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed Italy. We retrospectively reviewed all attendances and emergency (A&E) admissions due to foreign-body ingestions (FBIs) to an Italian pediatric referral hospital, from February 24 to April 24, 2020, COVID-19 lockdown and compared them with the same period in the previous 4 years. A total of 101 cases were recorded. Mean age of admission was 4.6 years. Groups did not differ for gender (P = 0.4) or age (P = 0.3). Among FBIs ingestions, 24.0% occurred in children with
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- 2020