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Rethinking the ‘one-stop’ neck lump clinic during COVID-19 and beyond: A novel pathway and pilot study

2020-10-26

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AIM Current guidelines advocate ‘one-stop’ neck lump assessment for cancer referrals. We pilot a novel pre-clinic ultrasound pathway, present the outcomes and discuss strengths and limitations especially in view of the current COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS Patients referred by the GP on a two-week-wait cancer pathway with a ‘neck lump’ were allocated pre-clinic ultrasound scans followed by an ENT clinic appointment....

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Literature Corpus work: 4103eb58-8740-55cb-9d1c-e759265211fc
DOI: 10.22541/au.160371013.30898893/v1

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