Buccal Fat Pad Injury-Delayed Presentation.

Archana Sinha Saravanan LakshmananManeesh SinghalSushma Sagar

Published in: The Indian journal of surgery (2021)

COVID-19 pandemic has been a major challenge for health care services all around the world. With increasing COVID-19 cases and lockdown enforcement, there has been a significant delay in the presentation of patients in the emergency department; also the fear in people of contracting COVID-19 from the hospital is an additional factor. The following case report describes such an incidence of delay in presentation of buccal fat pad injury patient to the emergency department.

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primary care
prognostic factors
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