COVID-19 infection diagnosis incidentally in orthopedic trauma patients: Report of six cases

Abstract

The outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) began in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and has spread worldwide rapidly In this case series study, we evaluated orthopedic patients who referred to the orthopedic trauma ward of Imam Hossein Hospital, Tehran, Iran, as a central hospital for both orthopedic trauma and COVID-19 patients from the beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran We incidentally detected six cases of COVID-19 infection during work-up for trauma management These patients were managed and treated for both COVID-19 infection and trauma Copyright © 2020 The Author(s) This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License