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POINT-BY-POINT RESPONSE FORMPlease list the editor’s, reviewer(s)’, and editorial office’s comments in the left-hand column, spacing them so that you can insert the relevant response in the center column and the respective point(s) in the text (and tables or legends, if appropriate) in the right-hand column. Adding line numbers to the manuscript file and referring to specific line numbers will be useful in determining which parts of the manuscript changed.Manuscript #: 201X-XXXXManuscript title: Suggestion, Question, or Comment from the EditorAuthor’s ResponseChange in the Manuscript“As far as: ‘To our knowledge, there is no published normative data for choroidal thickness determined by SS-OCT.’ In the methods section, please give a sentence or two on your literature review strategy to support the comment.”We truly appreciate the Editor’s suggestion, and we recognize that it would improve the revised version of the manuscript. However, Reviewer #1 had requested the exclusion of this comment from the text. In observance of Reviewer’s #1 request, the following sentence was excluded from lines 144 and 145 of the submitted version of the manuscript: “To our knowledge, there is no published normative data for choroidal thickness determined by SS-OCT.” Suggestion, Question, or Comment from Reviewer #1Author’s ResponseChange in the Manuscript“The authors measured en face SS-OCT in patients with chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) and reported en face SS-OCT images showing choroidal vascular abnormalities. We completely agree with the comment made by the Reviewer. This comment was added to the Discussion section of the manuscript. The methodology used in the present study significantly contributes to a better characterization of the choroidal vasculature. On line 283 of the submitted version of the manuscript, the following sentence was included: “This test may be useful to understand alterations in the layers underneath the neurosensory retina in pathologies other than CSCR, without requiring venous injection for angiography.”Suggestion, Question, or Comment from the Editorial OfficeAuthor’s ResponseChange in the Manuscript“Due to our limited number of print pages, please select 1/3 of the images for online only publication.”Following the Editorial Office comment, we selected 1/3 of the submitted images (Figure 3 and Figure 4) for “online only” publication. The “online only” figures were submitted in PDF format, each figure as a separate file.On lines 166, 179, 181, 186, 236, and 239 of the submitted version of the manuscript, a reference “available at ” was added after each figure selected for “online only” publication. ................
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