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Angela Santoro
Department of Woman, Child and Public Health Sciences, Gynecopathology and Breast Pathology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Angelico
Department of Woman, Child and Public Health Sciences, Gynecopathology and Breast Pathology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Frediano Inzani
Department of Woman, Child and Public Health Sciences, Gynecopathology and Breast Pathology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Nicoletta D'Alessandris
Department of Woman, Child and Public Health Sciences, Gynecopathology and Breast Pathology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Saveria Spadola
Department of Woman, Child and Public Health Sciences, Gynecopathology and Breast Pathology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Michele Valente
Department of Woman, Child and Public Health Sciences, Gynecopathology and Breast Pathology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Damiano Arciuolo
Department of Woman, Child and Public Health Sciences, Gynecopathology and Breast Pathology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Esther Diana Rossi
Department of Pathology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Guido Fadda
Department of Pathology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy; Pathological Anatomy Institute, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy
Guido Rindi
Department of Pathology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy; Pathological Anatomy Institute, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy
Gian Franco Zannoni
Department of Woman, Child and Public Health Sciences, Gynecopathology and Breast Pathology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy; Pathological Anatomy Institute, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy
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Biosafety procedures for handling intraoperative surgical samples during COVID-19 pandemic: an Italian pathology laboratory experience
Abstract
Up to now, Italy is one of the European centers with the most active Coronavirus cases with 233,836 positive cases and 33,601 total deaths as of June 3rd. During this pandemic and dramatic emergency, Italian hospitals had also to face neoplastic pathologies, that still afflict the Italian population, requiring urgent surgical and oncological treatment. In our Cancer Center Hospital, the high volume of surgical procedures have demanded an equally high volume of intraoperative pathological examinations, but also posed an additional major challenge for the safety of the staff involved. The current commentary reports our experience in the past two months (since March 9th) for a total of 1271 frozen exams from 893 suspect COVID-19 patients (31 confirmed).
