Reviewer's report
Title:Minithoracotomy oesophagectomy for oesophageal carcinoma with
aberrant right subclavian artery:A rare case of dysphagia
Version:2Date:22 July 2014
Reviewer: C S Pramesh
Reviewer's report:
The authors describe a case report regarding their experience of treating a
patient with an aberrant right subclavian artery. I have the following comments:
1. The condition is not very uncommon and the report emphasizes the
importance of identifying it preoperatively with radiology. This message is
important because failure to recognize it may result in catastrophic hemorrhage
during a transhiatal esophagectomy, or with surgeons who prefer to divide the
esophagus in the mediastinum to facilitate VATS esophageal mobilization, even
result in injury to the vessel.
2. Preoperative recognition of this anomaly is crucial but quite easy on contrast
enhanced CT scans as the radiological features are classical and can be easily
identified.
Major compulsory revisions - None
Minor essential revisions
3. The report of the case especially some of the preoperative symptoms
description could be cut short to make the report crisper.
Discretionary revisions
4. There are some errors of language, spelling, grammar and style - these need
to be corrected to make it more readable.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
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:Minithoracotomy oesophagectomy for oesophageal carcinoma with
aberrant right subclavian artery:A rare case of dysphagia
Version:2Date:22 July 2014
Reviewer: C S Pramesh
Reviewer's report:
The authors describe a case report regarding their experience of treating a
patient with an aberrant right subclavian artery. I have the following comments:
1. The condition is not very uncommon and the report emphasizes the
importance of identifying it preoperatively with radiology. This message is
important because failure to recognize it may result in catastrophic hemorrhage
during a transhiatal esophagectomy, or with surgeons who prefer to divide the
esophagus in the mediastinum to facilitate VATS esophageal mobilization, even
result in injury to the vessel.
2. Preoperative recognition of this anomaly is crucial but quite easy on contrast
enhanced CT scans as the radiological features are classical and can be easily
identified.
Major compulsory revisions - None
Minor essential revisions
3. The report of the case especially some of the preoperative symptoms
description could be cut short to make the report crisper.
Discretionary revisions
4. There are some errors of language, spelling, grammar and style - these need
to be corrected to make it more readable.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
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:Minithoracotomy oesophagectomy for oesophageal carcinoma with
aberrant right subclavian artery:A rare case of dysphagia
Version:2Date:22 July 2014
Reviewer: C S Pramesh
Reviewer's report:
The authors describe a case report regarding their experience of treating a
patient with an aberrant right subclavian artery. I have the following comments:
1. The condition is not very uncommon and the report emphasizes the
importance of identifying it preoperatively with radiology. This message is
important because failure to recognize it may result in catastrophic hemorrhage
during a transhiatal esophagectomy, or with surgeons who prefer to divide the
esophagus in the mediastinum to facilitate VATS esophageal mobilization, even
result in injury to the vessel.
2. Preoperative recognition of this anomaly is crucial but quite easy on contrast
enhanced CT scans as the radiological features are classical and can be easily
identified.
Major compulsory revisions - None
Minor essential revisions
3. The report of the case especially some of the preoperative symptoms
description could be cut short to make the report crisper.
Discretionary revisions
4. There are some errors of language, spelling, grammar and style - these need
to be corrected to make it more readable.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
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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