Image-Guided Percutaneous Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Tumors: An Analysis of 698 Cases and a Literature Review

Image-Guided Percutaneous Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Tumors: An Analysis of 698 Cases and a Literature Review

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: This is a retrospective analysis of 698 patients to determine the percentage of diagnostic procedures, diagnostic accuracy, and the incidence of complications with respect to imaging-guided percutaneous biopsy for musculoskeletal lesions. It also discussed the relevant existing literature.

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the journal Surgery Case Reports.

The manuscript contains a few minor errors (already corrected in the galley proof) are listed below –

The common errors are –

·       In the Abstract as well as body, the heading “Series” must be replaced with “Case series”.

·       Omission of articles, e.g., “the” before “aim” in the 2nd sentence of Purpose in the Abstract, “the” before “diagnosis” in Discussion in the Abstract, and so on.

·       Omission or overuse of “,”, e.g., overuse after “evaluation” in the 1st sentence of the 2nd paragraph of Series, omission after “(113/119)” in the 5th sentence of the 4th paragraph of Series, and so on.

·       “PCB” must be replaced with “PCBs” where multiple procedures are referred to, e.g., in the 1st sentence of the 2nd paragraph of Series, in the 4th sentence of the 4th paragraph of Series, and so on.

The others are –

In the Introduction –

  In the 2nd paragraph –

·       In the 4th sentence, “be only” must be replaced with “only be”.

In the Series –

  In the 2nd paragraph –

·       In the 4th sentence, “performing biopsy” must be replaced with “biopsy was performed”, and “preoperative” must be written without hyphen to maintain consistency.

  In the 3rd paragraph –

·       In the 3rd sentence, “result” must be replaced with “results”, and “surgically” must instead be placed at the end of the sentence.

In the Discussion –

  In the 3rd paragraph –

·       In the 4th sentence, “tumours” must be replaced with “tumour”.

·       In the 6th sentence, “patients non surgically treated” must be replaced with “non-surgically treated patients”.

  In the last paragraph –

·       In the 3rd sentence, “:” must be replaced with “;”, “carefully” must be replaced with “careful”, and “on” before “imaging-guidance” must be removed.

Author Info

Corresponding Author
Pietro Ruggieri
Department of Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Oncology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Article Info

Article Type
Research Article
Publication history
Received: Wed 13, May 2020
Accepted: Fri 29, May 2020
Published: Tue 30, Jun 2020
Copyright
© 2023 Pietro Ruggieri. 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.JSCR.2020.03.03