Title: Fishing line assisted endoscopic placement of multiple plastic biliary stents for
unresectable malignant hilar biliary obstruction: a retrospective study
Version: 4 Date: 18 Oct 2021
Reviewer's report:
The authors still did not answer about the step of FLA technique clear enough in the methods.
This is very important for the readers to follow. I recommend to put figures that show the step of
FLA starting from stent insertion to the scope channel and so on with finishing with the fishing
line removal.
Lastly, as I mentioned the technical success would not be a good surrogate markers for this, the
authors should emphasise and display on the stent migration rate, cost and time spent for this
FLA technique by comparing with the conventional method.
Title: Fishing line assisted endoscopic placement of multiple plastic biliary stents for
unresectable malignant hilar biliary obstruction: a retrospective study
Version: 4 Date: 18 Oct 2021
Reviewer's report:
The authors still did not answer about the step of FLA technique clear enough in the methods.
This is very important for the readers to follow. I recommend to put figures that show the step of
FLA starting from stent insertion to the scope channel and so on with finishing with the fishing
line removal.
Lastly, as I mentioned the technical success would not be a good surrogate markers for this, the
authors should emphasise and display on the stent migration rate, cost and time spent for this
FLA technique by comparing with the conventional method.
Please review this paper.
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Title: Fishing line assisted endoscopic placement of multiple plastic biliary stents for
unresectable malignant hilar biliary obstruction: a retrospective study
Version: 4 Date: 18 Oct 2021
Reviewer's report:
The authors still did not answer about the step of FLA technique clear enough in the methods.
This is very important for the readers to follow. I recommend to put figures that show the step of
FLA starting from stent insertion to the scope channel and so on with finishing with the fishing
line removal.
Lastly, as I mentioned the technical success would not be a good surrogate markers for this, the
authors should emphasise and display on the stent migration rate, cost and time spent for this
FLA technique by comparing with the conventional method.
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