Reply to comment on Wang et al.: Operative versus nonoperative treatment for acute Achilles tendon rupture

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We would like to thank the readers of International Orthopaedics for their questions on our meta-analysis [1]. In response to these queries, we would like to make the following comments:1. The readers advised that we should focus specifically on the search strategy. Thanks for their kind suggestion. We agreed with them that a comprehensive search was quite necessary in a meta-analysis. Although we did not list detailed index terms in the article, this did not mean that we neglected the role of search strategy. Two authors (NJ and AFC) independently retrieved relevant studies by means of electronic search. It was probably one of the shortcomings that we did not list the index terms in detail.