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Answer to letter: The decrease of non-complicated acute appendicitis and the negative appendectomy rate during pandemic

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Monza: Marco Nizzardo, Luca Nespoli, Luca Fattori, Luca Degrate, Stefano Perrone, Marco Cereda. Bergamo: Michele Pisano, Elia Poiasina. Lodi: Michele Ballabio, Stefano Braga. Pavia: Giorgio Graziano. Pisa: DarioTartaglia, Francesco Arces. Lecco: Marco Mariani, Fulvio Tagliabue. Parma: Gennaro Perrone, Alfredo Annicchiarico, Mario Giuffrida. Legnano: Giovanni Ferrari, Antonio Benedetti, Niccolò Allievi. Ponte San Pietro: Michele Ciocca, Enrico Pinotti, Mauro Montuori. San Raffaele: Michele Carlucci, Valentina Tomajer. Cesena: Paola Fugazzola.

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  1. General and Emergency Surgery Department, School of Medicine and Surgery, Milano-Bicocca University, Via Pergolesi 33, 20900, Monza, Italy

    Marco Ceresoli & Marco Braga

  2. Emergency Surgery and Trauma Center Department, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy

    Federico Coccolini & Massimo Chiarugi

  3. General and Emergency Surgery Department, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy

    Stefano Magnone & Alessandro Lucianetti

  4. General and Emergency Surgery Department, ASST Lodi, Lodi, Italy

    Pietro Bisagni & Teodora Armao

  5. General and Emergency Surgery Department, IRCCS San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Luca Ansaloni

  6. Robotic and Emergency Surgery Department, ASST Lecco, Ospedale Manzoni, Lecco, Italy

    Mauro Zago

  7. Emergency Surgery Department, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy

    Fausto Catena

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Ceresoli, M., Coccolini, F., Magnone, S. et al. Answer to letter: The decrease of non-complicated acute appendicitis and the negative appendectomy rate during pandemic. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 47, 1371–1372 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-021-01731-y

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