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Authors: Pierre-Alain Clavien, Daniel Dindo

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 5/2009

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We appreciate the comments by Cunningham and Kavic [1] regarding our terminology and definition of intraoperative adverse events [2]. As they correctly state, our classification was designed to objectively catch postoperative complications only, and our definition of a complication does not address intraoperative events. …

Cunningham SC, Kavic SM (2009) What is a surgical complication? World J Surg 33 doi:10.1007/s00268-008-9881-5. Published online: 7 January 2009

Dindo D, Clavien PA (2008) What is a surgical complication? World J Surg 32:939–941PubMedCrossRef

Dindo D, Demartines N, Clavien PA (2004) Classification of surgical complications: a new proposal with evaluation in a cohort of 6336 patients and results of a survey. Ann Surg 240(2):205–213PubMedCrossRef

Title: Reply
Authors: Pierre-Alain Clavien
Daniel Dindo
Publication date: 01-05-2009
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: World Journal of Surgery / Issue 5/2009
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-009-9975-8

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