Dear Sir,Thank you very much for your friendly response to our published paper in AOTS. I am pleased to hear that the topic of our paper has been of interest and appreciate the readers comments. With pleasure I would like to answer the questions on a point to point basis.nearly 50 of our patients were treated after discharge by surgeons outside of our department. This critical fact should be taken into account in the interpretation of our data.
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Department of Trauma Surgery, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany, thomas.westphal@kliniksued-rostock.de.;