Is Preoperative Sarcopenia a Good Predictor of Postoperative Complications and Outcomes after Pelvic Exenteration Surgery?

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: This study assesses the effect of preoperative sarcopenia (common in cancer patients) on the postoperative complications and outcome for pelvic exenteration surgery. This is the first study to specifically address sarcopenia in this context. 

 

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the Journal of Surgical Oncology. 

 

o   There are a few errors in the manuscript (already corrected in the galley proof). The most common ones are – 

·       Omission of articles, e.g. omission of “a” before “major” in the 2^nd sentence in the Background section of Abstract, omission of “a” and “the” before “greater” in the 1^st and 2^nd sentences respectively of the Results section of Abstract, and so on. 

·       Omission of punctuations, e.g. omission of “,” after “however” in multiple places, omission of “.” before “therefore” in the 2^nd sentence of the Conclusion section, omission of “;” before “however” in multiple places, and so on. 

 

o   The other errors are listed below – 

In the Abstract section –  

  Under Methods – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “;” after “2018” must be removed. 

  Under Results – 

·       The construction of the last sentence was incorrect. So, it must be rewritten. 

In the Introduction section –  

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·       In the last sentence, “to” before “postoperative” must be replaced by “for”. 

  In the 3^rd paragraph – 

·       The wording of the 2^nd sentence must be changed to be grammatically correct. 

In the Materials and Methods section – 

  Under Study population – 

·       The sentences describing the inclusion criteria as well as the exclusion criteria must be rewritten to make the words in the parts before the numbering applicable to all the criteria mentioned.  

  Under Clinical Data – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “previous” must be replaced by “previously”. 

·       In the 4^th sentence, “has” before “already” must be replaced by “have”.  

  Under Image Analysis – 

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “a” before “SMI” must be replaced by “an”. 

In the Results section – 

  In the 6^th paragraph – 

·       In the last sentence, “numbers” must be replaced by “number” and “an” before “increased” must be removed. 

  In the 7^th paragraph – 

·       In the last sentence, “variance” must be replaced by “the variation”. 

In the Discussion section – 

  In the 3^rd paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “greater than” must be removed as it is redundant and “2” must be replaced by “two”. 

In the Conclusion section – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “effect” must be replaced by “affect”. 

 

Author Info

Anna Rangan Felicity Ritorni Michael Solomon Sharon Carey Simon Lai Sophie Hogan Virginia Chan

Corresponding Author

Sophie Hogan
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 17, Jan 2020
Accepted: Mon 03, Feb 2020
Published: Fri 14, Feb 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Sophie Hogan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSO.2020.01.04