Recommendations for head and neck surgical oncology practice in a setting of acute severe resource constraint during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international consensus.

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Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Greater Poland Cancer Centre, Poznan, Poland.; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Atilim University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.; Department of Head and Neck Surgery, National Cancer Centre and Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.; Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.; Department of Otolaryngology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, School of Medical Science, Kumasi, Ghana.; Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology, A C Camargo Cancer Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil.; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zucker School of Medicine, Northwell Health Cancer Institute, New York, NY, USA.; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cochin Cancer Research Centre, Cochin, India.; First Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.; Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.; Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Cancer Center Amsterdam, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.; Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, St James's Hospital and The Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.; Foundation IRCCS, Division of Medical Oncology, National Institute of Cancer of Milan, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.; Department of Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.; Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.; Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Department of Oncology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.; Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain.; Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.; Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Maxillofacial and Thyroid Surgery, National Institute of Cancer of Milan, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.; Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.; Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidad de Antioquia-Hospital Universitario San Vicente Fundación, Medellin, Colombia; CEXCA Centro de Excelencia en Enfermedades de Cabeza y Cuello, Medellin, Colombia.; Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.; Department of Clinical Oncology, The Christie National Health Service Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK; Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.; Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.; Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.; Department of Head and Neck Surgery, National Cancer Center-Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.; Department of Cancer Services, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Department of Surgical Oncology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.; Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.