Reviewer's report
Title:Endoscopic treatment of malignant gastric outlet obstruction with stents: A
systematic evaluation of the reported variables for clinical outcome
Version: 2Date:28 January 2009
Reviewer: Todd Baron
Reviewer's report:
Minor essential revision. The authors state "there no Objective evaluation of
gastric/duodenal function after stenting is limited and no studies have performed
quantitative tests of gastric emptying". this is not true. there is one study: Maetani
I, Ukita T, Tada T, Ikeda M, Seike M, Terada H, Kohda E. Gastric emptying in
patients with palliative stenting for malignant gastric outlet obstruction.
Hepatogastroenterology. 2008 Jan-Feb;55(81):298-302. This needs to be
included in the paper even though it may not meet the criteria for 15 patients.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:Endoscopic treatment of malignant gastric outlet obstruction with stents: A
systematic evaluation of the reported variables for clinical outcome
Version: 2Date:28 January 2009
Reviewer: Todd Baron
Reviewer's report:
Minor essential revision. The authors state "there no Objective evaluation of
gastric/duodenal function after stenting is limited and no studies have performed
quantitative tests of gastric emptying". this is not true. there is one study: Maetani
I, Ukita T, Tada T, Ikeda M, Seike M, Terada H, Kohda E. Gastric emptying in
patients with palliative stenting for malignant gastric outlet obstruction.
Hepatogastroenterology. 2008 Jan-Feb;55(81):298-302. This needs to be
included in the paper even though it may not meet the criteria for 15 patients.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
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Reviewer's report
Title:Endoscopic treatment of malignant gastric outlet obstruction with stents: A
systematic evaluation of the reported variables for clinical outcome
Version: 2Date:28 January 2009
Reviewer: Todd Baron
Reviewer's report:
Minor essential revision. The authors state "there no Objective evaluation of
gastric/duodenal function after stenting is limited and no studies have performed
quantitative tests of gastric emptying". this is not true. there is one study: Maetani
I, Ukita T, Tada T, Ikeda M, Seike M, Terada H, Kohda E. Gastric emptying in
patients with palliative stenting for malignant gastric outlet obstruction.
Hepatogastroenterology. 2008 Jan-Feb;55(81):298-302. This needs to be
included in the paper even though it may not meet the criteria for 15 patients.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
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