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Response to Letter to Reply to the authors’ response to the letter to the editor concerning the article “Randomized control trial on the effectiveness and safety of direct trocar versus Veress needle entry techniques in obese women during diagnostic laparoscopy”

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  1. Effective Care Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi Campus, P.M.B. 5025, Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria

    Joseph Ifeanyichukwu Ikechebelu, George Uchenna Eleje & Boniface Chukwuneme Okpala

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, PMB 5025, Nnewi, Nigeria

    Joseph Ifeanyichukwu Ikechebelu, George Uchenna Eleje, Chidimma Donatus Okafor, Boniface Chukwuneme Okpala, Chukwuemeka Chukwubuikem Okoro & Princeston Chukwuemeka Okam

  3. Life International Hospital, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria

    Joseph Ifeanyichukwu Ikechebelu, Ngozi Nneka Joe‑Ikechebelu, Boniface Chukwuneme Okpala & Cyril Emeka Nwachukwu

  4. Department of Community Medicine, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria

    Ngozi Nneka Joe‑Ikechebelu

  5. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria

    Emmanuel Onyebuchi Ugwu

  6. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku‑Ozalla, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria

    Emmanuel Onyebuchi Ugwu

  7. Department of Anesthesiology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, PMB 5025, Nnewi, Nigeria

    Cyril Emeka Nwachukwu

  8. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi Campus, Nnewi, Nigeria

    Princeston Chukwuemeka Okam

  9. Effective Care Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (Nnewi Campus), P.M.B. 5001, Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria

    George Uchenna Eleje

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JII: project development, data collection, and manuscript writing. GUE: project development, data collection, and manuscript writing. NNJ: project development, data collection, and manuscript writing. CDO: project development, data collection, and manuscript writing. BCO: project development, data collection, and manuscript writing. EOU: project development, data collection, and manuscript writing. CEN: project development, data collection, and manuscript writing. CCO: project development, data collection, and manuscript writing. PCO: project development, data collection, and manuscript writing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Ikechebelu, J.I., Eleje, G.U., Joe‑Ikechebelu, N.N. et al. Response to Letter to Reply to the authors’ response to the letter to the editor concerning the article “Randomized control trial on the effectiveness and safety of direct trocar versus Veress needle entry techniques in obese women during diagnostic laparoscopy”. Arch Gynecol Obstet 307, 1659–1660 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-022-06716-9

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