Reply to “Few comments on: Association of the collagen score with anastomotic leakage in rectal cancer patients after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy”

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to respond to the letter to the editor concerning our article that developed and validated a nomogram based on the collagen score for individualized prediction of anastomotic leakage (AL) in rectal cancer patients with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT).1 We thank Drs Xie and Tang for their interest in our research and for their questions. Our response is below.
Source: Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research