Author’s reply to letter to the editor: “After propensity score matching in long-term oncologic outcomes of robotic gastrectomy for gastric cancer compared with laparoscopic gastrectomy”

Response to Dr. Kim:

We are very much thankful for your deep and thorough comment on our article [1]. Especially, we truly agreed to your concern for confusing data presented in this paper. As you mentioned, Table 1 showed incorrect data for clinical stage represented as cT, cN and cStage of the entire cohort. Moreover, in propensity-score matched group, the numbers of metastatic lymph nodes were reversed between the robotic group and laparoscopic group (“robotic vs. laparoscopic = 0.6 ± 2.4 vs. 1.0 ± 3.2” should be changed to “robotic vs. laparoscopic = 1.0 ± 3.2 vs. 0.6 ± 2.4”).

Table 1 Patient characteristics and clinicopathological features

All of the authors regret to recognize typing error too late, and would like to correct this error. The revised Table 1 is given in the following corrected Table 1.