Publications by authors named "Ariadna L Benitez-Martinez"

Introduction: Head and neck cancer patients are at high risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection; surgery in them involves risk for patients, surgeons, health personnel, medical institutions and society, since it is associated with prolonged and inadvertent production of aerosols and emergency procedures that facilitate the breach of protective measures by health personnel.

Objective: To find out if pulmonary tomographic findings are sufficient to preoperatively identify patients with COVID-19.

Methods: Retrospective, cross-sectional, analytical study of patients with cervical-facial neoplasms who were candidates for surgery, preoperatively evaluated by simple chest computed tomography based on the CO-RADS classification.

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