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I am grateful to the reviewers for their insightful comments on our paper. I have been able to incorporate changes to reflect most of the suggestions provided by the reviewers.  Thank you, sincerely.","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/10-951\/v2#referee-comment-7556","order":1,"name":"referee-comment-7556","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"<b>meryam meryam<\/b>; \n<i>Posted: 16 Oct 2022<\/i>; the first laparoscopic pathway was indicated in the first place as an easy and minimally invasive exploratory approach.","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/10-951\/v2#referee-comment-8906","order":2,"name":"referee-comment-8906","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.5256\/f1000research.76663.r94998, Jaques Waisberg, Department of Surgery, Institute of Medical Assistance to State Civil Servants (IAMSPE), Sao Paulo, Brazil, 13 Oct 2021, version 1, 3 approved with reservations","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/10-951\/v1#referee-response-94998","order":3,"name":"referee-response-94998","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"<b>meryam meryam<\/b>; \n<i>Posted: 07 Dec 2021<\/i>; Dear Sir,  I appreciate the time and effort that you and the reviewers have dedicated to providing your valuable feedback on my manuscript. I am grateful to the reviewers for their insightful comments on our paper. I have been able to incorporate changes to reflect most of the suggestions provided by the reviewers.  Thank you, sincerely.","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/10-951\/v2#referee-comment-7555","order":4,"name":"referee-comment-7555","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"<b>meryam meryam<\/b>; \n<i>Posted: 16 Oct 2022<\/i>; thank you for your efforts i made all the corrections","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/10-951\/v2#referee-comment-8907","order":5,"name":"referee-comment-8907","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.5256\/f1000research.139083.r156495, Cristian Mesina, Department of Surgery, Craiova University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova, Romania, 28 Nov 2022, version 2, indexed","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/10-951\/v2#referee-response-156495","order":6,"name":"referee-response-156495","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work","order":7,"name":"grant-information","label":"Grant Information"},{"value":"This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.","order":0,"name":"copyright-info","label":"Copyright"}]}}