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Is simply covering the patient's mouth with a surgical mask during transnasal endoscopy sufficient as an anti-COVID-19 measure?

  • Yohei Nose (Department of Next Generation Endoscopic Intervention (Project ENGINE), Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University ) ;
  • Tomo Ishida (Department of Next Generation Endoscopic Intervention (Project ENGINE), Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University ) ;
  • Tomoki Makino (Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University) ;
  • Tsuyoshi Takahashi (Department of Next Generation Endoscopic Intervention (Project ENGINE), Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University ) ;
  • Yukinori Kurokawa (Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University) ;
  • Hidetoshi Eguchi (Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University) ;
  • Yuichiro Doki (Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University) ;
  • Kiyokazu Nakajima (Department of Next Generation Endoscopic Intervention (Project ENGINE), Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University )
  • 투고 : 2022.08.01
  • 심사 : 2022.08.24
  • 발행 : 2023.05.30

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The authors would like to thank all the workers who participated in the study.

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