Self-Made Minimally Invasive Broken Nail Extractor for Distal Broken Segment of Cannulated Intramedullary Nails: One Case Application Report and Literature Review

Review Data

Q: Is the topic relevant to the journal area of interest? Is it contemporary and interesting for

researchers?

A: Good

Abstract & Keywords

Q: Are all required components included in the abstract? Are the keywords appropriately chosen?

A: Good

Goal

Q: Is the goal explicitly stated in the Introduction? Is its formulation clear and unambiguous?

A: Very Good

Structure

Q: Is the paper's structure coherent? Is it in coherence with the goal of the paper?

A: Good

Tools and Methods

Q: Are methods the author uses adequate and well used?

A: Good

Discussion & Conclusion

Q: Is it related to the results presented before? Do you consider them as coherent?

A: Good

Comments: The Discussion describes different techniques and methods and their disadvantages for the extraction of the distal piece of broken cannulated intramedullary nail providing relevant literature. The authors compared the previous techniques with their current developed method as a simple and reasonable design that provides a high extraction success rate for the distal broken segments of cannulated intramedullary nails.

Literature

Q: Does the author utilize relevant literature?

A: Good

Author's knowledge

Q: What is the level of the author’s knowledge? Does the author utilize all recent contributions relevant to the topic?

A: Good

Length

Q: Is the length of the paper adequate to the significance of the topic? Do you suggest shortening the paper without losing its value?

A: Good

Figures & Tables

Q: Does the author use them suitably? Are legend and notations clear?

A: Good

Writing style

Q: Is it clear and understandable?

A: Good

Comments: There are few issues found in the manuscript, which are as follows:

·       The heading “Methods” and “Materials and Methods” should be written Case Presentation.

·       Words like “Introduction”, “manufactured” has been misspelled as “Intraduction” and “manufacted”

·       Under Introduction, 1^st paragraph, 6^th sentence, “Closed exchange nailing is becoming now one of the preferred methods to treat nonunion of fracture tibia and femur” should be written as “Closed exchange nailing is now becoming one of the preferred methods to treat nonunion of fractured tibia and femur”.

Further comments on the paper

Comments: The Case Report presents a 48-year-old male for internal implant removal with healed fractured right tibial and a broken intramedullary nail that was retained at the distal of the tibial for 12 years. The Case mainly highlights the procedures of the self-made minimally invasive broken nail extractor for the distal broken segment of cannulated intramedullary nails.

Q: Would you recommend this manuscript for further publication?

A: Yes - Suitable to be published

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