A Device for Polypectomy May Contribute to Safety in Bloodless Resection of a Small Hemangioma of the Tongue under Local Anesthesia

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: This is the report of a case of an 88-year-old woman with a small hemangioma of the tongue, which was resected with a device for polypectomy, which contributed to the safety of the bloodless resection, especially under local anesthesia.

 

o   Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the Journal of Surgical Oncology.

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

 

·       A common mistake is the omission of articles, e.g., “the” before “resection” and “an” before “88” in the 4^th sentence of the Abstract, and so on.

In the Title –

·       “in” must be inserted after “safety”.

In the Abstract –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “for” must be inserted after “even”, “of hemangioma” after “treatment” must be removed, “was” must be replaced with “is”, and “performed” must be replaced with “provided”.

·       In the 4^th sentence, “88 year-old” must be replaced with “88-year-old”.

·       In the last sentence, “for a” must be inserted after “even”, and “of” after “risk” must be replaced with “for”.

In the Introduction –

·       In the last sentence, “polype” must be replaced with “polyps”.

In Technical Note Report –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “88 year-old” must be replaced with “88-year-old”, and “of” must be replaced with “on”.

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “was measuring of” must be replaced with “recorded was”.

·       In the 4^th sentence, “be” must be inserted before “performed”, and “severe heart failure” must be replaced with “serious heart disease”.

·       In the 5^th sentence, “newly safety” must be replaced with “new safe”.

·       In the 9^th sentence, “before” must be replaced with “for”.

·       In the 10^th sentence, “this” must be replaced with “the polypectomy”, and “slowly” must be replaced with “slow”.

·       In the 11^th sentence, “the amount of” must be inserted before “blood”, “an” must be removed, and “i.e.,” must be inserted before “less”.

·       In the 13^th sentence, “Postoperative local complications were not observed” must be replaced with “There were no postoperative local complications”.

In the Discussion –

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “cavernous” is misspelled, and “occur” must be replaced with “occurs”.

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “have been” must be replaced with “were”.

·       In the 6^th sentence, “,” before “however” must be replaced with “;”, and “were” must be removed.

·       In the last sentence, “,” before “however” must be replaced with “;”.

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “at” after “advantages” must be replaced with “including”, “short-time” must  be replaced with “short”, “no” must be replaced with “less”, “complication” must be in plural, and “with” must be replaced with “to”.

  In the 3^rd paragraph –

·       “device” must be in plural, “for a” must be inserted after “even”, and “of” after “risk” must be replaced with “for”.

Author Info

Go Arai Hisako Fujihara Kazutoshi Nakaoka Koji Kawaguchi Mitsuhiko Hasebe Nanami Nakamura Shuji Koyama Takanori Eguchi Tomoyuki Saito Yoshiki Hamada

Corresponding Author

Koji Kawaguchi
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, Tsurumi University, Japan

Article Info

Article Type

Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 02, Apr 2020
Accepted: Mon 20, Apr 2020
Published: Wed 22, Apr 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Koji Kawaguchi. 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.JSO.2020.02.06