Risk Factors for the Recurrence of Basal Cell Carcinomas with Special Remarks on the R-Status

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: In the backdrop of the huge number of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) cases appearing every year, this study attempted to investigate the various risk factors for the recurrence of BCC through a retrospective analysis of 141 head and neck BCC patients, taking resection status into consideration.

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

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

The common ones are –

·       Omission of “the”, e.g., before “aim” in the 3^rd sentence of the Background in the Abstract, before “significant” in the 4^th sentence of the Results in the Abstract, and so on.

·       Omission of “,”, e.g., after “guidelines” in the 2^nd sentence of the Background in the Abstract, after “temple” in the 2^nd sentence of the Results in the Abstract, and so on.

·       “tumor-specific”, “watch-and-wait” and “two-third” must be hyphenated.

The others are –

In the Abstract –

  Under Background –

·       In the last sentence, “bcc” must be replaced with “BCC”.

  Under Results –

·       In the last sentence, “.” after “contrast” must be replaced with “,”.

  Under Conclusions –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “therefore” is misspelled.

·       In the last sentence, “the” before “surgical” must be removed.

In the Introduction –

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “caucasians” must be replaced with “Caucasians”.

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “on” before “younger” must be replaced with “in”.

  In the 3^rd paragraph –

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “MOHs” must be replaced with “Mohs”.

  In the last paragraph –

·       “a” before “relapse” must be removed.

In the Materials and Methods –

  In the 5^th paragraph –

·       “multivariated” must be replaced with “multivariate”.

In the Results –

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “were” must be replaced with “was”.

  In the 3^rd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “border” is misspelled.

·       In the 4^th sentence, “a” before “R+” must be replaced with “an”.

In the Conclusions –

  In the 6^th paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “an” must be removed.

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “is” must be inserted after “this”, “which” must be replaced with “that”, and “not only performed on BCC” must be replaced with “performed in cases other than BCC”.

  In the 7^th paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “a” before “general” must be removed, “on” must be inserted after “advice”, and “or not” must be removed.

Author Info

Roman Kia Rahimi-Nedjat Andrea Tuettenberg Keyvan Sagheb Stephan Grabbe Carmen Loquai Sarah Hümmer Christian Walter Bilal Al-Nawas

Corresponding Author

Roman Kia Rahimi-Nedjat
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - Plastic Surgery, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 08, May 2020
Accepted: Fri 22, May 2020
Published: Wed 17, Jun 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Roman Kia Rahimi-Nedjat. 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.2020.03.07