COVID-19 Pandemic. Impact on Hysteroscopic Procedures: A Consensus Statement From the Global Congress of Hysteroscopy Scientific Committee
Affiliation
- Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences Department, Minimally Invasive Gynecology Unit, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL. Electronic address: tonycarugno@yahoo.com.
- Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Naples, “Federico II” Naples, Italy.
- Centro Gutenberg, Endoscopy Unit, Malaga, Spain.
- Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel.
- Life Expert Centre, Leuven, Belgium.
- Department of Maternal and Child Health and Urological Sciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
- Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
- II Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department DIM, University “Aldo Moro,” Policlinico of Bari, Bari, Italy.
- Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela.
- Center for Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA.
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Madonna University Teaching Hospital, Elele, Rivers State, Nigeria.
- Spencer Hospitals, Margate, United Kingdom.
- Hysteroscopic Surgery Division, Women’s Health Centre, Jaipur, India.
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China.
- Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira, Recife, PE, Brazil.
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, “Filippo Del Ponte” Hospital, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
- 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
- PMID: 32339754
- PMCID: PMC7194569
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2020.04.023
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