Review for 10.1186/s12876-018-0777-z (2018)

Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title:  Pancreatic duct obstruction after pancreaticojejunostomy: Implications for early prediction 
and prevention of long -term pancreatic complicati ons 
 
Version: 0 Date: 09 Jan 2018 
 
Reviewer:  kolawole  Akande  
 
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How many patients underwent PD or segmental resection of the pancreas in all during the study 
period? And what percentage of those are these 78 patients recruited?  
 
Was the indication for surgery the same in all of the patients? If not it might be interesting to see 
the relationship between the initial pathology and pancreatic duct obstruction and indeed long 
term complications.  
 
How many patients had I125  
 
Please insert the reference for the 1985 Wo rld Health Organization study group on diabetes 
mellitus  
 
What do you mean yb patients with  concomitant complications? Are these different from those 
with pre operative long term complications?  
 
Are the methods appropriate and well described?  
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Yes 
 
Does the work include the necessary controls?  
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Yes 
 
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?  
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Yes 
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I am able to assess the statistics  
 
Quality of written English  
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Acceptable  
 
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