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Erratum to: Efficacy and short-term outcomes of preoperative chemoradiotherapy with intermittent oral tegafur-uracil plus leucovorin in Japanese rectal cancer patients: a single center experience retrospective analysis

World Journal of Surgical Oncology volume 15, Article number: 171 (2017) Cite this article

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Upon Publication of the original manuscript [1] several discrepancies were highlighted in both the Abstract and Tables 5 and 6. The errors in tables 5 and 6 have since been acknowledged and corrected in this erratum. This manuscript was also updated to amend the abstract. It was highlighted that errors were present in both tables 5 and 6. The values given in these tables were incorrect and were misleading to the reader. These errors change neither the outcome of the experiments nor the conclusions of the article.

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Table 5 Toxicity Gradea patients with CRT (n = 31)
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Table 6 Postoperative complications
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  1. Nakagawa R, Inoue Y, Ohki T, Kaneko Y, Maeda F, Yamamoto M. Efficacy and short-term outcomes of preoperative chemoradiotherapy with intermittent oral tegafur-uracil plus leucovorin in Japanese rectal cancer patients: a single center experience retrospective analysis. World journal of surgical oncology. 2017 May 31;15(1):112.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8111, Japan

    Ryosuke Nakagawa, Yuji Inoue, Takeshi Ohki, Yuka Kaneko, Fumi Maeda & Masakazu Yamamoto

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The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1186/s12957-017-1177-5

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Nakagawa, R., Inoue, Y., Ohki, T. et al. Erratum to: Efficacy and short-term outcomes of preoperative chemoradiotherapy with intermittent oral tegafur-uracil plus leucovorin in Japanese rectal cancer patients: a single center experience retrospective analysis. World J Surg Onc 15, 171 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12957-017-1224-2

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