Review for 10.1186/s12876-020-01450-5 (2020)

Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title: A case report of intestinal obstruction caused by cryptogenic multifocal ulcerous stenosing  
enteritis  
 
Version: 0 Date: 02 Jul 2020  
 
Reviewer's report:  
 
1. You should not introduce confusion of CMUSE and CNSU. If term CNSU is already given than 
you should try and use the same. An uncommon entity doesn 't deserve confusion in literature. So 
I suggest align and use term CNSU unless you believe that CNSU is a misnomer and ideal 
terminology should be CMUSE!  
2. Too many grammar and language revisions needed e.g. patient doesn't get admitted for surgical 
treatment of small bowel obstruction. Patient is admitted for symptoms of vomiting, pain etc and 
during investigations we find small bowel obstruction and hence we advocate surgical treatment 
based on some indications etc...… So your language of case presentat ion has to be refined.  
3. Conclusion - You should not write that you will continue to follow up for relapse of condition!. 
Conclusion is that clinicians should be aware of this rare or uncommon entity etc.... Raise 
awareness by reporting this entity. So ag ain, language needs to be refined please.  
4. Currently, there are only over 60 cases of CMUSE or CNSU reported in the world [1],Which  
was first reportedin 1964[2], It featured by unexplained small bowel multiple superficial 
ulcers,stenosis,obstruction and  no biological signs of systematic inflammation, which are prone to 
recurrence ，Some patients are effective in hormone therapy[3].  
Comment - The above is all incorrect grammar. Comma, fullstop, sentence formation all is wrong. 
Needs revision please.  
5. In t he future, we will continue to follow up this patient, and regularly perform barium meal 
examinations of the whole digestive tract, and if necessary, perform capsule endoscopy or 
enteroscopy to observe the intestinal cavity and observe whether similar lesi ons recur.  
Comment - All statements like above are not needed. You just need to state that you shall continue 
to followup the patient and monitor for relapse of the condition. Please don't speculate. There is 
no indication for 'regular barium enema'etc. an d Capsule is contraindicated (relative 
contraindication if not absolute) in patients with suspected obstruction or adhesions.  
6. Authors have used different font types e.g. NSAID is different font type. In Short, grammar, 
language etc needs extensive revi sion for worthy scientific manuscript. Case is novel. Case is good. 
But the whole presentation, style etc needs extensive revision of content.  
7. Remove figure 2 of ct scan and also remove one histology figure. You need to include 
magnification, stains and what does the histology figure show with some arrows inside image to 
tell readers what is seen. So total 2 figures will be removed and we will  have 4 - ct scan, operative 
picture x 2 and histology.  
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