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        <article-title>Peer Review of “Use of Spinal Anesthesia in Pediatric Laparoscopic Appendectomies: Case Series”</article-title>
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            <surname>Meinert</surname>
            <given-names>Edward</given-names>
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            <given-names>Theodoros</given-names>
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          <degrees>MD, PhD</degrees>
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        <label>1</label>
        <institution>Intensive Care Unit</institution>
        <institution>St Paul General Hospital</institution>
        <addr-line>Thessaloniki</addr-line>
        <country>Greece</country>
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        <season>Apr-Jun</season>
        <year>2021</year>
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        <day>28</day>
        <month>4</month>
        <year>2021</year>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>13</day>
          <month>4</month>
          <year>2021</year>
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          <day>13</day>
          <month>4</month>
          <year>2021</year>
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      <copyright-statement>©Theodoros Aslanidis. Originally published in JMIRx Med (https://xmed.jmir.org), 28.04.2021.</copyright-statement>
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        <kwd>appendectomy</kwd>
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      <italic>This is a peer-review report submitted for the paper “Use of Spinal Anesthesia in Pediatric Laparoscopic Appendectomies: Case Series”.</italic>
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      <title>Round 1 Review</title>
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        <title>General Comments</title>
        <p>A good written presentation of the study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>] was conducted by the authors.</p>
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        <p>None declared.</p>
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        <label>1</label>
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            <name name-style="western">
              <surname>Hannan</surname>
              <given-names>MJ</given-names>
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            <name name-style="western">
              <surname>Parveen</surname>
              <given-names>MK</given-names>
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              <surname>Nandy</surname>
              <given-names>A</given-names>
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            <name name-style="western">
              <surname>Hasan</surname>
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          <article-title>Use of Spinal Anesthesia in Pediatric Laparoscopic Appendectomies: Case Series</article-title>
          <source>JMIRx Med</source>
          <year>2021</year>
          <month>04</month>
          <volume>2</volume>
          <issue>2</issue>
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