Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on gastroenterological surgeries in 2020: A study using the National Clinical Database of Japan.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effect of the coronavirus disease pandemic on the number of surgeries for gastroenterological cancer cases in Japan.

Methods: The data recorded in the National Clinical Database of Japan between 2018 and 2020 were utilized for this study. Five specific surgeries for primary cancers and surgery for acute diffuse peritonitis were considered the primary endpoints.

Freezing of gait is an early clinical feature of progressive supranuclear palsy.

Background And Aim: Early clinical diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) remains challenging.

Aim: We attempted to identify any sign or symptom to diagnose PSP earlier.

Methods: A total of 401 patients, 40 with PSP and 361 with other neurodegenerative disorders, were included.