Response to letter to the Editor

Severin Gloor^{1

2}, Stefan Breitenstein³, Christoph Tschuor^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
² Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland. stefan.breitenstein@ksw.ch.
⁴ Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Transplantation, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Comment

Severin Gloor et al. Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2022 Nov.

. 2022 Nov;407(7):3167-3168.

doi: 10.1007/s00423-022-02643-0. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

Severin Gloor^{1

2}, Stefan Breitenstein³, Christoph Tschuor^{1

4}

¹ Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
² Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland. stefan.breitenstein@ksw.ch.
⁴ Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Transplantation, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

No abstract available

Comment on

Prehabilitation: better for selected patients.
Slim K. Slim K. Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2022 Nov;407(7):3165. doi: 10.1007/s00423-022-02642-1. Epub 2022 Aug 4. Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2022. PMID: 35927522 No abstract available.

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