J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;135:469-471
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
Reply to the Editor
Alberto Ruol, MD, FACS,
Giuseppe Portale, MD
Department of Gastroenterological and Surgical Sciences, Clinica Chirurgica III, University of Padova School of Medicine, Padova, Italy
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We appreciate Dr Yung's concerns about the quality of scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, which are read by thousands of specialists in both thoracic and general surgery. It has been a privilege for us to have our data published in the Journal and we would like to reassure Dr Yung that the review process of the Journal has not failed to detect possible significant limits in our manuscript, as he suggested.
We will supply the following details.
- 1. The survival curves shown in the figures were generated with the Kaplan–Meier method, but the "reproduction" process failed to . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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