key: cord-0835330-65prblh6
authors: Huynh, Isabelle
title: When Covid-19 saves lives: accidental cancer diagnosis in an epidemic context
date: 2021-03-26
journal: Ethics Med Public Health
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2021.100666
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doc_id: 835330
cord_uid: 65prblh6

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Case #2, a 76-year-old man with diabetes and hypertension, in whom a thoracic angio-CT scan was made on 10/30/2020 for dyspnoea with oxygen-flow dependence and suspicion of COVID complicated by pulmonary embolism. This CT-scan revealed a SARS-COV2 pneumonia with moderate impairment (10-25%) of the pulmonary parenchyma, without pulmonary embolism, and a doubtful pancreatic mass to explore. Additional examinations identified main duct and branch ducts intraductal papillary mucinous tumours of the pancreas with malignant degeneration without associated secondary lesion and without vascular contact that may contraindicate surgery. The patient will be able to benefit from curative surgery.

Very clearly, these two examples illustrate two key concepts: first, that of noninterruption of diagnostic and therapeutic medicine of optimal quality in French university

Second, the fact that the increase in the frequency of CT examinations in a pandemic period could have been the cause of a diagnostic catch

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