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Age-Specific Differences in Foreign Bodies Ingested by Children: A Cohort Study of 252 Japanese Cases

by Jumpei Fujisawa, Tomokazu Mutoh, Kengo Kawamura, Ryuta Yonezawa, Maiko Hirai and Ichiro Morioka *
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2:
Submission received: 24 November 2019 / Revised: 11 January 2020 / Accepted: 15 January 2020 / Published: 19 January 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Emergency Medicine)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper is interesting and provided important information regarding diagnosis of foreign body ingestion in children that can guide clinical diagnosis and practice. I have a few suggestions below that can enhance the manuscript. 

Is there a difference in type of foreign body ingestion among male versus female patients? Table 2 showed age specific characteristic for male patients, but what about the age specific characteristic for female patients? Do you also observe a significant difference in type of foreign body ingestion in female at different age?  Does household economic status also play a role in type of foreign body ingestion? 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Aural and nasal foreign bodies in children

Please compare your results with other articles.

Dear Authors, 

will written and presented article. The background and the aim of your study is  presented very good. I miss the conclusions from your results. Why are boys more often? What are the reasons for different foreign bodies in the different ages? Why have you choosen this different groups of foreign bodies? Would be interesting the devide in size or potential harm.

In your conclusion you mentioned connection to psychiatric diseases. That is absolutly true! Just check our article about foreign bodies (Schuldt T et al. 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Hereby I highly recommend the paper for acception. 

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