Did the severity of appendicitis increase during the COVID-19 pandemic?

• Yao-Jen Chang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

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• Li-Ju Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Ophthalmology, HepingFuyou Branch, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yun-Jau Chang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: yunjauchang2003@yahoo.com.tw

  Affiliations Department of General Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of General Surgery, Zhong-Xing Branch, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2433-0544

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