Reviewer's report
Title:Comparison of the usefulness of endoscopic papillary large-balloon dilation
with endoscopic sphincterotomy for large and multiple common bile duct stones
Version:3Date:12 February 2015
Reviewer: Madhusudhan Sanaka
Reviewer's report:
Authors did an interesting study comparing EST with EPLBD for large stones in
CBD.
EPLBD was superior to EST as expected.
Minor revisions:
1. need better grammar
2. can authors explain why EST group had very high pancreatitis rate?
3. can authors give details of the size of the stones with 3 or more common bile
duct stones
4. reduce redundancy in results by not repeating what is already shown in tables
5. I do not understand why mean duration of hospitalization was so long, please
explain.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Not suitable for publication unless extensively edited
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:Comparison of the usefulness of endoscopic papillary large-balloon dilation
with endoscopic sphincterotomy for large and multiple common bile duct stones
Version:3Date:12 February 2015
Reviewer: Madhusudhan Sanaka
Reviewer's report:
Authors did an interesting study comparing EST with EPLBD for large stones in
CBD.
EPLBD was superior to EST as expected.
Minor revisions:
1. need better grammar
2. can authors explain why EST group had very high pancreatitis rate?
3. can authors give details of the size of the stones with 3 or more common bile
duct stones
4. reduce redundancy in results by not repeating what is already shown in tables
5. I do not understand why mean duration of hospitalization was so long, please
explain.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Not suitable for publication unless extensively edited
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Comparison of the usefulness of endoscopic papillary large-balloon dilation
with endoscopic sphincterotomy for large and multiple common bile duct stones
Version:3Date:12 February 2015
Reviewer: Madhusudhan Sanaka
Reviewer's report:
Authors did an interesting study comparing EST with EPLBD for large stones in
CBD.
EPLBD was superior to EST as expected.
Minor revisions:
1. need better grammar
2. can authors explain why EST group had very high pancreatitis rate?
3. can authors give details of the size of the stones with 3 or more common bile
duct stones
4. reduce redundancy in results by not repeating what is already shown in tables
5. I do not understand why mean duration of hospitalization was so long, please
explain.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Not suitable for publication unless extensively edited
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
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