An effect of the COVID-19 pandemic: Significantly more complicated appendicitis due to delayed presentation of patients!

• Marie Burgard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marie Burgard, Floryn Cherbanyk

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, HFR Fribourg—Cantonal Hospital Fribourg, Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8137-077X

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• Floryn Cherbanyk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marie Burgard, Floryn Cherbanyk

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, HFR Fribourg—Cantonal Hospital Fribourg, Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0242-6692

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• Konstantinos Nassiopoulos,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Daler Hospital Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

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• Sonaz Malekzadeh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, HFR Fribourg—Cantonal Hospital Fribourg, Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland

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• François Pugin,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, HFR Fribourg—Cantonal Hospital Fribourg, Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland

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• Bernhard Egger

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bernhard-egger@bluewin.ch

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, HFR Fribourg—Cantonal Hospital Fribourg, Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland

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