Manejo de la patología mamaria en el servicio de radiodiagnóstico en un hospital de alta incidencia de COVID-19 / Breast pathology handling by breast radiologists in a high incidence hospital for COVID-19

En este artículo pretendemos exponer al lector como hemos realizado el manejo de la patología mamaria por parte de la Sección de Radiología durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en un hospital de alta incidencia, como ha sido el "Complejo Hospitalario Universtiario de Albacete", donde desarrollamos dicha actividad. Para ello, hemos revisado las principales guías de actuación propuestas por diferentes sociedades, haciendo una comparativa con el manejo que hemos realizado por parte de nuestro servicio y viendo si eran todas aplicables y óptimas o si nos hemos visto en la necesidad de modificar algunas de ellas en beneficio de las pacientes, debido tanto a la alta incidencia de patología mamaria no demorable como a la de COVID-19 en nuestra ciudad, siendo nuestro objetivo evitar al máximo el retraso diagnóstico de patología mamaria y sobre todo de cáncer de mama, así como evitar los contagios tanto del personal sanitario como de las pacientes

In this article we would like to show the reader how we have managed breast pathology along all pandemic COVID-19 period in our Radiology Department, as far as our Hospital ("Complejo Hospitalario Universtiario de Albacete") has been highly affected by COVID-19. To get to a result, we have revised main breast management guides porpused by different societies, and we have afterwards compared their recommendations with our way of handling the situation, taking into account that some of them were available and others were modified in order to benefit our patients. This was necessary in order to satisfy the attention of our patients with non delaying breast pathology and to manage correctly COVID-19 pandemic as well in a high incidence place. Our principal aims have been avoiding breast pathology diagnosis delay (breast cancer above all), as well as avoiding workers and patients COVID-19 infection

Contribution of intraoperative colonoscopy in a colorectal surgery unit.

OBJECTIVES: Intraoperative colonoscopy (IC) is routinely used in colorectal surgery procedures, both oncologic and benign ones. Despite its extensive use there is a lack of literature addressing this important issue. The aims of this paper are to determine the contributions of this tool, especially considering changes in attitude from preoperative designed intervention. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study is a retrospective analysis of a prospective maintained database. Patients who underwent colorectal resection and IC during a four-year period (2009-2012). The indications for performing IC in our unit are: Incomplete preoperative colonoscopy, confirm the exact location of the tumor and polypectomy of any lesion distant from the planned resection segment. RESULTS: The success rate in performing IC is 100%, including 42% of them made trans-anastomotic. No postoperative complications that were attributable to the endoscopy were detected. Routine practice led to a change in attitude in 5% of the patients analyzed; 2% of the global sample corresponded to synchronous tumors finding. Of those patients in whom polypectomies where achieved during the procedure a 14.3% of potentially malignant lesions were resected. CONCLUSIONS: Intraoperative colonoscopy is a useful and safe tool that in view of these results should be taken into account at any colorectal surgery unit. Trans-anastomotic techniques do not raise morbidity.