Esophageal Food Impaction and Foreign Object Ingestion in Gastrointestinal Tract: A Review of Clinical and Endoscopic Management
, Vasile Sandru 1,*, Madalina Stan-Ilie 1,2,*, Oana-Mihaela Plotogea 1,†, Umar Shamim 1, Bogdan Florin Dumbrava 1 and Mariana Mihaila 3Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I commend the authors for their well-done summary and review of the literature on Esophageal Food Impactation and Foreign Object Ingestion in the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract - the clinical cases presented were outstanding.
The authors review the current DX/TX processes that effectively adress GI FOB (with a focus on esophageal impaction. The topic is relevant to the field, it helps summarize the current DX/TX paradigm. This is a well done case series with review of the relevant literature. this is helpful to clinicians as a quick summary relevant to the field.
Author Response
Dear reviewer,
Thank you very much for taking time to review our manuscript and also for your comments.
Reviewer 2 Report
Congratulations on the Review. I have some comments:
In the diganosis part could you expand the part on suspect perforation with criteria for suspecting a perforation of the esophagus.
In the management part could you please comment on not using sedation for this type of endoscopic intervention (for basic cases). Also in this part could you put a picture of some (as many as you can find) tools for foreign body extraction.
Style change sugestions/type errors:
Line 131: change to Dormia basket instead Dromia
Line 171 to 174: please restyle the sentences
Line 221: abdominal word not with capital letter
Line 250: restyle this part of sentence, percentage is wrong (sum>100%)
Line 261: please change dozen times
Please check errors in References part
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