Temporary Perineal Urethrostomy During Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP)

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Purpose and Significance of Study: The authors attempted to determine the role of perineal urethrostomy in patients undergoing HoLEP for the relief of symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Although the sample size is very small (7), the inference that temporary perineal urethrostomy can be performed instead of aborting the procedure, are encouraging.

 

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

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

 

The common errors are –

·       Omission of “the” in many places, e.g., before “creation” in the 1^st sentence of Methods in the Abstract, before “mean” in the 4^th sentence of the Results in the Abstract, and so on.

·       Omission of “,”, e.g., after “removed” in the 3^rd sentence of the Description of technique, after “artery” in the 6^th sentence of the Description of technique, and so on.

·       Omission or wrong use of “;”, e.g., “;” after “success” in the 1^st sentence of the 2^nd paragraph in the Introduction must be replaced with “,”, “;” must be inserted after “centimeters” in the 7^th sentence of the Description of technique, and so on.

·       Omission of “.” after “et al” and “vs”.

·       “postoperative”, “preoperative” and “perioperative” must be written without hyphen in all places to maintain consistency.

·       “bulbospongiosum” must be replaced with “bulbospongiosus”.

·       Abbreviations must not be used without introducing the full forms first, e.g., for BPH and IRB.

 

The other errors are –

In the Abstract –

  Under Results –

·       In the 7^th sentence, “day time” must be written as a single word.

In the Description of Technique –

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “create” must be replaced with “perform”.

·       In the 9^th sentence, “full thickness” must be hyphenated.

·       In the 12^th sentence, “previously described” must be replaced with “per previous description”.

·       In the 13^th sentence, “mandarin” is misspelled.

In the Results –

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “old” must be removed.

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “morbidly obese” must be replaced with “because of morbid obesity”, and “had” before “penile” must be replaced with “because of”.

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “final specimen weight” must be replaced with “weight of the final specimen”.

In the Discussion –

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 5^th sentence, “catheterization” is misspelled.

Author Info

Amy Krambeck Deepak Agarwal James Lingeman Joshua Heiman Marcelino Rivera Tim Large

Corresponding Author

Joshua Heiman
Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Urology, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 24, Apr 2020
Accepted: Thu 07, May 2020
Published: Fri 15, May 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Joshua Heiman. 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.IJSCR.2020.02.04