Review for 10.1186/s12876-021-01813-6 (2021)

Reviewer’s report
Title: 
Primary Intestinal Lymphangiectasia presenting as limb hemihyperplasia.
A case report and literature review.
Version: 
0 
Date: 
05 Dec 2020
Reviewer's report:
Ammar A Khayat submitted this paper entitled "Primary intestinal
lymphagiectasia presenting as limb hemi-hyperplasia. A case report and
literature review". The author showed a rare case of primary intestinal
lymphangiectasia with the presentation of unilateral leg edema. Author further
emphasized about primary intestinal lymphangiectasia as one of the differential
diagnosis of unilateral leg edema. It has educational purpose for reminding other
physicians of the disease since the disease is reversible with diet intervention.
This paper is well written and interesting but I have a few concerns before it
could be published. 
Comments:
1. Line 33 to 34: "Physical examination revealed mild ascites": Did author
performed any physical examination with the conclusion of mild ascites or by
abdominal sonography?
2. Author mentioned about Stemmer's sign in this patient. Since this is an
important component in the article (limb hemi-hyperplasia in title), the picture of
leg edema of patient should be provided and also the picture of after treatment
should also be shown in the article. (Stemmer's sign, before and after treatment). 
3. I would like to have another series of clinical pictures of patient (Stemmer's
sign, before and after food modification as Figure 1A and 1B). Furthermore, I
think author should pick one endoscopic picture (clearer and sharp image) as
figure 2 (two figures are too much). Figure 3 and figure 4 should be combined to
one figure (for example like figure 3A and 3B). 
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