Title: Indocyanine green fluorescence imaging localization-assisted thoracoscopy revision
surgery after repair of esophageal atresia
Version: 2 Date: 23 May 2022
Reviewer:  Rony Sfeir
Reviewer's report:
Introduction :
1/ Delayed primary closure is not defined as a complication after EA repair.
2/ Original use of ICG
Material and methods
1/ Patients sel"e"ction  : Replace indocyanine green fluorescence  by ICG
2/ Surgical procedures :
-In section 1.1, you precised that you placed a two separate layers of flaps without saying what
kind of flaps are they? muscle? pericardium?
-In section 2, maybe you can cite previous surgical history of this patient with secondary repair
in this section and not in the disucssion
-Yo may also add some details about the fluorecence imaging mode. What means turn on and
off? Did we need a special camera or monitor?
Results :
You precise that one patient needed esophageal dilatation, Is that stenosis was prexisting to the
thoracospic procedure? Sometimes a new anastomosis is indicated when treating the recurrent
fistula.
Table 1 : The 9 patients characteristics is a more suitable title in my opinion and you can
delete line 5 in the table. The rate of tracheal stenosis is surprising? How you define it? Was it
independent from tracheomalacia? And twhat happens after the repair?
I found this study very original and interesting. The first condition is to possess this kind of
material.  Avoiding periesophageal and peritracheal injuries is mandatory and this technique
seems to answer to this objective and Im sure that also in open procedures it could help in some
cases.
Title: Indocyanine green fluorescence imaging localization-assisted thoracoscopy revision
surgery after repair of esophageal atresia
Version: 2 Date: 23 May 2022
Reviewer:  Rony Sfeir
Reviewer's report:
Introduction :
1/ Delayed primary closure is not defined as a complication after EA repair.
2/ Original use of ICG
Material and methods
1/ Patients sel"e"ction  : Replace indocyanine green fluorescence  by ICG
2/ Surgical procedures :
-In section 1.1, you precised that you placed a two separate layers of flaps without saying what
kind of flaps are they? muscle? pericardium?
-In section 2, maybe you can cite previous surgical history of this patient with secondary repair
in this section and not in the disucssion
-Yo may also add some details about the fluorecence imaging mode. What means turn on and
off? Did we need a special camera or monitor?
Results :
You precise that one patient needed esophageal dilatation, Is that stenosis was prexisting to the
thoracospic procedure? Sometimes a new anastomosis is indicated when treating the recurrent
fistula.
Table 1 : The 9 patients characteristics is a more suitable title in my opinion and you can
delete line 5 in the table. The rate of tracheal stenosis is surprising? How you define it? Was it
independent from tracheomalacia? And twhat happens after the repair?
I found this study very original and interesting. The first condition is to possess this kind of
material.  Avoiding periesophageal and peritracheal injuries is mandatory and this technique
seems to answer to this objective and Im sure that also in open procedures it could help in some
cases.
Please review this paper.
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Title: Indocyanine green fluorescence imaging localization-assisted thoracoscopy revision
surgery after repair of esophageal atresia
Version: 2 Date: 23 May 2022
Reviewer:  Rony Sfeir
Reviewer's report:
Introduction :
1/ Delayed primary closure is not defined as a complication after EA repair.
2/ Original use of ICG
Material and methods
1/ Patients sel"e"ction  : Replace indocyanine green fluorescence  by ICG
2/ Surgical procedures :
-In section 1.1, you precised that you placed a two separate layers of flaps without saying what
kind of flaps are they? muscle? pericardium?
-In section 2, maybe you can cite previous surgical history of this patient with secondary repair
in this section and not in the disucssion
-Yo may also add some details about the fluorecence imaging mode. What means turn on and
off? Did we need a special camera or monitor?
Results :
You precise that one patient needed esophageal dilatation, Is that stenosis was prexisting to the
thoracospic procedure? Sometimes a new anastomosis is indicated when treating the recurrent
fistula.
Table 1 : The 9 patients characteristics is a more suitable title in my opinion and you can
delete line 5 in the table. The rate of tracheal stenosis is surprising? How you define it? Was it
independent from tracheomalacia? And twhat happens after the repair?
I found this study very original and interesting. The first condition is to possess this kind of
material.  Avoiding periesophageal and peritracheal injuries is mandatory and this technique
seems to answer to this objective and Im sure that also in open procedures it could help in some
cases.
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