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In Ja Park, M.D. and Gyu-Seog Choi, M.D. have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Vievis Namuh Hospital, Seoul, Korea

    In Ja Park

  2. Department of Surgery, Kynung-pook National University, Daegu, Korea

    Gyu-Seog Choi

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Park, I.J., Choi, GS. Author reply to the letter to the editor “Surgeon’s volume and lymph nodes number in assessing colorectal cancer surgery and multimodal treatment quality”. Surg Endosc 24, 2070–2071 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-009-0852-1

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