Kristie Q Liu, Jonathan Dallas, Talia A Wenger, Zasca Ristianto, Li Ding, Frances Chow, Gabriel Zada, William J Mack, Frank J Attenello
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruptions to healthcare systems around the world, due to both high resource utilization and concern for disease spread. Delays in non-emergent surgeries have also affected chronic disease management, including that of benign brain tumors such as meningiomas and pituitary adenomas. To evaluate the effect of COVID-19 infection on benign brain tumor resection rates and subsequent perioperative and inpatient outcomes, this study utilized the 2020 National Inpatient Sample (NIS) to investigate rates of surgical resection, time to surgery, and mortality among benign brain tumor patients with and without COVID-19...
September 21, 2023: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience: Official Journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia