Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing surgeries during the incubation period of COVID-19 infection

The outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly worldwide. In the early stage, we encountered a small but meaningful number of patients who were unintentionally scheduled for elective surgeries during the incubation period of COVID-19. We intended to describe their clinical characteristics and outcomes.We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 34 patients underwent elective surgeries during...