Yaseen Perbtani1, Alejandro L Suarez2, Mihir S Wagh3. 1. Department of Medicine University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States. 2. Division of Gastroenterology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States. 3. Division of Gastroenterology, University of Colorado, Denver, United States.
We thank Mavrogenis et al.
1 for their interest in our publication 2, and their remarks on our published paper. We realize that there are novel techniques continuously being developed for the treatment of complete esophageal obstruction (CEO), including our dissection technique, Per-Oral Endoscopic Tunneling for Restoration of the Esophagus (POETRE) 3 referenced in our paper 2. We congratulate the authors on their recent description of a successful technique using endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for CEO. Unfortunately our manuscript 2 was submitted for publication around the same time that the report from Mavrogenis and colleagues was published online 1 and hence it was not included in our references. The omission was not intentional, and was due to the timing of submission of our manuscript.