Fig. 4.
Box plots showing the diagnostic interval (DI) in days during the 2020 pandemic and the 2019 pre-pandemic times among patients who had benign and malignant biopsy pathology results. A statistically significant difference was found in DI among patients with a benign diagnosis (p = 0.0001). No statistically significant difference was found in the group of patients with a malignant diagnosis (p = 0.9177). In the pandemic group, a final diagnosis was made for most of the patients (90th percentile; red line) with a benign result in 28 days and a malignant result in 37 days, as compared with 126 days and 37 days, respectively, in the pre-pandemic group