L Massimi, G Cinalli, P Frassanito, V Arcangeli, C Auer, V Baro, A Bartoli, F Bianchi, S Dietvorst, F Di Rocco, P Gallo, F Giordano, J Hinojosa, S Iglesias, V Jecko, G Kahilogullari, F Knerlich-Lukoschus, R Laera, D Locatelli, D Luglietto, M Luzi, M Messing-Jünger, R Mura, P Ragazzi, L Riffaud, J Roth, A Sagarribay, M Santos Pinheiro, P Spazzapan, P Spennato, N Syrmos, G Talamonti, L Valentini, M L Van Veelen, M Zucchelli, G Tamburrini
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 pandemic is thought to have changed the epidemiology of some pediatric neurosurgical disease: among them are the intracranial complications of sinusitis and otitis (ICSO). According to some studies on a limited number of cases, both streptococci-related sinusitis and ICSO would have increased immediately after the pandemic, although the reason is not clear yet (seasonal changes versus pandemic-related effects). The goal of the present survey of the European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN) was to collect a large number of cases from different European countries encompassing the pre-COVID (2017-2019), COVID (2020-2021), and post-COVID period (2022-June 2023) looking for possible epidemiological and/or clinical changes...
March 8, 2024: Child's Nervous System: ChNS: Official Journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery