COVID-19 pandemic impact on cytopathology practice in the post-lockdown period: An international, multicenter study.
Elena VigliarPasquale PisapiaFilippo Dello IacovoEduardo Alcaraz-MateosGreta AlìSyed Z AliZubair W BalochClaudio BellevicineMassimo BongiovanniPavlina BotsunDario BruzzeseLukas BubendorfReinhard BüttnerSule CanberkArrigo CapitanioChiara CasadioEugeniu CazacuBeatrix Cochand-PriolletAlessandro D'AmuriKatelynn DavisCatarina EloyMarianne EngelsGuido FaddaGabriella FontaniniFranco FulcinitiPaul HofmanAntonino IaccarinoAntonio IeniXiaoyin 'Sara' JiangKennichi KakudoIzidor KernIvana KholovaKathryn M Linton McDermottChinhua LiuAnandi LoboMaría Dolores LozanoUmberto MalapelleZahra MalekiPamela MichelowMichael W MikulaJamal MusayevGonca ÖzgünMeltem OznurFrancisca Maria Peiró MarquésDavid PollerMichal PyzlakBetsy RobinsonEsther Diana RossiSinchita Roy-ChowdhuriMauro Ajaj SaiegSpasenija Savic PrinceFernando C SchmittFrancisco Javier Seguí IváñezTajana Štoos-VeićOksana SulaievaBrenda J SweeneyGiovanni TuccariMarie-Louise van VelthuysenPaul A VanderLaanPhilippe VielhPatrizia ViolaQuirinus J M VoorhamBirgit WeynandPio ZeppaWilliam C Faquin Md PhDMartha Bishop PitmanGiancarlo TronconePublished in: Cancer cytopathology (2022)
The data showed a persistent reduction in the cytological specimen volume during the post-lockdown period (2020). However, the relative increase in the cytological workload in the late part of the post-lockdown is a promising finding of a slow return to normality.