Short-Term Impact of Temporary Shutdown of a University-Affiliated Hospital on Patients With Colorectal Cancer During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Youn Young Park; Jaeim Lee; Kil yong Lee; Seong Taek Oh

doi:10.3346/jkms.2022.37.e173

Short-Term Impact of Temporary Shutdown of a University-Affiliated Hospital on Patients With Colorectal Cancer During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Youn Young Park
, Jaeim Lee
, Kil yong Lee
, Seong Taek Oh

Department of Surgery

Kyung Hee University

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Abstract

Owing to in-hospital transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, a university-affiliated hospital in South Korea, was temporarily closed for disinfection in March 2020. This study aimed to investigate the impact of both the hospital shutdown and the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic on short-term outcomes of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. We retrospectively reviewed the clinicopathologic data of 607 patients who were surgically treated for CRC from May 2018 to September 2021. Nodal upstaging, higher lymphatic invasion and abdominoperineal resection rates for 3 months after the hospital resumed surgery following the shutdown in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic were detected, without worse short-term morbidity or mortality. The incidence of adverse pathologic features of CRC such as lymphatic, venous, and perineural invasion was higher throughout the COVID-19 pandemic era. Further follow-up of CRC patients treated in the pandemic era for long-term oncologic outcomes is needed.

Original language	English
Article number	e173
Journal	Journal of Korean Medical Science
Volume	37
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2022.37.e173
State	Published - 2022

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Colorectal neoplasm
Covid-19
Neoplasm staging

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Short-Term Impact of Temporary Shutdown of a University-Affiliated Hospital on Patients With Colorectal Cancer During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

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