Peer review report 1 on “A Retrospective Study of Laparoscopic Surgery for Small Bowel Obstruction”

1. Original Submission

1.1. Recommendation

Major Revision.

1.2. Comments to the author

Introduction: long

Patients and methods:

• * The title of the article is: A Retrospective Study of Laparoscopic Surgery for Small Bowel. How it comes and most of the cases were operated by open approach?

Results:

• * Pre-operative decompression: did it affect your results?
• * Surgical treatment was performed in an emergency setting in 31 patients (64.6%), and electively in 17 patients (35.4%). Did the emergency condition affect your approach either open or laparoscopic?

Discussion:

• * The purpose of this study is to evaluate the outcomes of laparoscopic treatment and to examine the appropriate settings for a laparoscopic approach in SBO surgery.

The author mentioned it in the introduction while removed it from the abstract and not comment or any data on that point at the results or discussion.