How we provided appropriate breast imaging practices in the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy.
Filippo PesapaneSilvia PencoAnna RotiliLuca NicosiaAnna BozziniChiara TrentinValeria DominelliFrancesca PrioloMariagiorgia FarinaIrene MarinucciStefano MeroniFrancesca AbbateLorenza MeneghettiAntuono LatronicoMaria PizzamiglioEnrico CassanoPublished in: The British journal of radiology (2020)
Italy has one of the highest COVID-19 clinical burdens in the world and Lombardy region accounts for more than half of the deaths of the country. Since COVID-19 is a novel disease, early impactful decisions are often based on experience of referral centres.We report the re-organisation which our institute (IEO, European Institute of Oncology), a cancer referral centre in Lombardy, went through to make our breast-imaging division pandemic-proof. Using personal-protective-equipment and innovative protocols, we provided essential breast-imaging procedures during COVID-19 pandemic without compromising cancer outcomes.The emergency management and infection-control-measures implemented in our division protected both the patients and the staff, making this experience useful for other radiology departments dealing with the pandemic.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- high resolution
- primary care
- papillary thyroid
- healthcare
- emergency department
- squamous cell
- newly diagnosed
- public health
- end stage renal disease
- prognostic factors
- adipose tissue
- mass spectrometry
- fluorescence imaging
- metabolic syndrome
- young adults
- patient reported outcomes
- machine learning
- insulin resistance
- patient reported