Letter To The Editor
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2020. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Gastroenterol. Nov 7, 2020; 26(41): 6510-6513
Published online Nov 7, 2020. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v26.i41.6510
Comment on “Updated meta-analysis of pancreatic stent placement in preventing post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis”
Jiang-Tao Chu
Jiang-Tao Chu, Department of Endoscopy, National Cancer Center, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China
Author contributions: Chu JT performed the research, analyzed the data and wrote the letter.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No funds were received in support of this work. There are no relevant financial activities outside the submitted work.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Jiang-Tao Chu, MD, Doctor, Department of Endoscopy, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, No. 17 Panjiayuan, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100021, China. cjtcg@163.com
Received: July 10, 2020
Peer-review started: July 10, 2020
First decision: August 8, 2020
Revised: August 21, 2020
Accepted: September 29, 2020
Article in press: September 29, 2020
Published online: November 7, 2020
Core Tip

Core Tip: Data extraction errors appeared to exist in a published meta-analysis entitled “Updated meta-analysis of pancreatic stent placement in preventing post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis” by Fan and colleagues in World J Gastroenterol 2015; 21(24): 7577-7583.