Fig. 1From: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric operations: a retrospective study of Chinese childrenChildren who underwent surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the corresponding period 1 year earlier. The number of operations performed by the emergency surgery, outpatient surgery, oncology surgery, plastic surgery, orthopedics department, hepatobiliary surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, urology department, neurosurgery department, cardio-thoracic department, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology department, and department of stomatology was significantly smaller during the pandemic period than during the corresponding period 1 year earlier. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01Back to article page