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Title:Intramuscular spindle cell lipoma of the deltoid : a case report

Authors:

Naoki Mizoshiri (mizo715@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp)Toshiharu Shirai (shi-ra-e@med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp)Ryu Terauchi (ryutel@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp)Yuji Arai (yarai89046@nike.eonet.ne.jp)Hiroyoshi Fujiwara (fjwr@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp)Eiichi Konishi (ekonishi@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp)Hiroyuki Tsuchiya (tsuchi@med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp)Toshikazu Kubo (tkubo@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp)

Version:5Date:19 December 2014

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Author's response to reviews Title: Intramuscular spindle cell lipoma of the deltoid : a case report

Authors:

Naoki Mizoshiri (mizo715@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp)

Toshiharu Shirai (shi-ra-e@med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp)

Ryu Terauchi (ryutel@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp)

Yuji Arai (yarai89046@nike.eonet.ne.jp)

Hiroyoshi Fujiwara (fjwr@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp)

Eiichi Konishi (ekonishi@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp)

Hiroyuki Tsuchiya (tsuchi@med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp)

Toshikazu Kubo (tkubo@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp)

Version: 4Date:6 November 2014

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Reviewer's report

Title: Intramuscular spindle cell lipoma of the deltoid : a case report

Version: 4Date: 6 November 2014

Reviewer: TAKANOBU OTSUKA

General

The authors reported a case of spindle cell lipoma that occurred at unusual

location. This paper is well written and should be of interest to the

musculoskeletal surgeons. However, a few points should be corrected or added

prior to the publication as follows.

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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on

publication can be reached)

None

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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a

term, which the author can be trusted to correct)

1. The sentence in Abstract line34 (There is no reported case of…) should be

deleted. This sentence seem to be not needed.

The sentence in Abstract has been deleted.

2. In the sentence of Case presentation line77 (There was no adhesion…), the

latter part of this sentence “ such as muscles, nerves and vascular structures”

should be deleted, because there seemed to be no adjacent nerve & vascular

structures around the tumor.

The sentence in Case presentation section has been deleted.

3. The final diagnosis of resected tumor was not mentioned in Case presentation

section. This should to be added.

The final diagnosis of resected tumor has been added in Case presentation

section.

4. In the sentence of Discussion line96, “bening” should be changed to “benign”.

The word has been changed to benign.

5. The bisected image for resected tumor should be shown in Case presentation

& Figure.

We have now included the bisected image and comment in Case presentation

and Figure.

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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore)

None

Level of interest: An article of importance in its field

Quality of written English: Acceptable

Declaration of competing interests: I declare that I have no competing

interests.