Author ' s response to reviews Title : Meta-analysis of radiofrequency ablation versus hepatic resection for small hepatocellular carcinoma

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Author	Zhou, Yanming Zhao, Yanfang
Abstract	Title: Meta-analysis of radiofrequency ablation versus hepatic resection for small hepatocellular carcinoma Thank you for your kindness to review our manuscript (MS: 1678670284339794). Following the criticisms from you and reviewers, we have revised our paper. The point to point answers to three reviewers are supplemented at the end of this letter. It is important to note that the name of my hospital was changed to " The First affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University " a week ago. China Reviewer 1: Guy J Maddern a) On page 6, second line: RFA has been incorrectly described as FRA. This is a correction that would need to be made prior to the manuscript being published. answer: We have revised FRA to RFA. b) In a number of places within the manuscript some spelling errors have occurred. Answer: We have carefully read our manuscript again and corrected some spelling errors. c) The topic of radiofrequency ablation versus hepatic resection remains controversial and the discussion is an important one to have. It is unfortunate that only one randomised controlled trial exists. It may be useful if the authors were
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