Thoracic surgery and COVID-19 pandemic: an unexpected intimate relationship

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Chairs: C. Robalo Cordeiro (Coimbra, Portugal), F. Meloni (Pavia (PV), Italy)
Aims: to report the incidence and outcome of the complications of COVID-19 that require thoracic surgery.

Defining appropriate surgical management of thoracic complications I. Opitz (Zurich, Switzerland)
Tracheal complications after prolonged intubation: risk factors, surgical indications and outcome M. Lucchi (Pisa (PI), Italy)
The positive downside: unveiling of unknown chest malignancies. S. Elia (Roma (RM), Italy)
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