Reviewer's report
Title:Autoimmune Pancreatitis - A Comparative Description Highlighting North
American Experiences In Diagnosis And Management
Version: 1Date:13 December 2012
Reviewer: Terumi Kamisawa
Reviewer's report:
Similar papers about AIP have been published already. However, this study
appears to be important as there are few reports about AIP from Canada.
There is a major issue in Methods of this study.
Major compulsory revisions:
As international consensus diagnostic criteria for AIP are pulished, comparison of
old diagnostic criteria is not necessary. The materials should be focused on
patients diagnosed as Type 1 and type 2 AIP according to international criteria.
If authors want to analyze patients with only IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis,
they should use diagnostic criteria of IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis (JHPBS
2012).
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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:Autoimmune Pancreatitis - A Comparative Description Highlighting North
American Experiences In Diagnosis And Management
Version: 1Date:13 December 2012
Reviewer: Terumi Kamisawa
Reviewer's report:
Similar papers about AIP have been published already. However, this study
appears to be important as there are few reports about AIP from Canada.
There is a major issue in Methods of this study.
Major compulsory revisions:
As international consensus diagnostic criteria for AIP are pulished, comparison of
old diagnostic criteria is not necessary. The materials should be focused on
patients diagnosed as Type 1 and type 2 AIP according to international criteria.
If authors want to analyze patients with only IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis,
they should use diagnostic criteria of IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis (JHPBS
2012).
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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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Reviewer's report
Title:Autoimmune Pancreatitis - A Comparative Description Highlighting North
American Experiences In Diagnosis And Management
Version: 1Date:13 December 2012
Reviewer: Terumi Kamisawa
Reviewer's report:
Similar papers about AIP have been published already. However, this study
appears to be important as there are few reports about AIP from Canada.
There is a major issue in Methods of this study.
Major compulsory revisions:
As international consensus diagnostic criteria for AIP are pulished, comparison of
old diagnostic criteria is not necessary. The materials should be focused on
patients diagnosed as Type 1 and type 2 AIP according to international criteria.
If authors want to analyze patients with only IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis,
they should use diagnostic criteria of IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis (JHPBS
2012).
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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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