Duodenojejunostomy, an Old Technique but Novel Solution for Giant Duodenal Perforations - A Report of Four Cases and Review of Literature

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Purpose and Significance of Study: The manuscript describes four cases of duodenojejunostomy performed to resolve giant duodenal ulcer perforations in aged patients and puts forward a review of literature related to such cases. The significance of the manuscript lies in the fact that a quick, safe and novel solution is offered for the especially poor prognosis in elderly patients despite the existence of multiple repair techniques in this regard. 

 

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

 

The manuscript is quite well-written. A few minor changes are requested, which are listed below– 

 

·       A common error that was noted was the omission of “the” in multiple places, e.g. in the 1^st sentence of Background under Abstract, before “medical management” and in the 2^nd sentence of Conclusion under Abstract, before “current literature”. 

·       The word “melena” is misspelled as “malena”. 

·       The words “high risk” in all the places must be replaced by “high-risk”. 

·       The ages of the patients must be written as “X-year-old”. 

·       The words “co-morbid”, “co-morbidity” or “co-morbidities” must be written without hyphens to maintain consistency. 

·       The words “gram negative” must be hyphenated. 

·       In Background under Abstract – 

§  In the 6^th sentence, “are” must be replaced with “is”. 

§  In the last sentence, “a review of” must be replaced by “to review the”. 

·       In the 6^th sentence, under Case 1, “,” must be inserted after “intra-operatively”. 

·       In Conclusions- Discussion & Review of Literature – 

§  In the 3^rd paragraph, “,” must be inserted after “perforation” and “however”. 

§  In the second last paragraph, in the 2^nd sentence, “;” must be replaced with “,”. 

 

Author Info

Daniel Tan Ee Lee Jesse Hu Shulin Lee Chin Li Tiffany Rui Xuan Gan

Corresponding Author

Jesse Hu Shulin
Department of Surgery, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore

Article Info

Article Type

Case Report & Review of Literature

Publication history

Received: Fri 03, Jan 2020
Accepted: Mon 20, Jan 2020
Published: Tue 04, Feb 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Jesse Hu Shulin. 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.SCR.2020.01.08