Evidence map›Paper›PMID 15146036›Full record

ArticleJournal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry2004

The present and future management of malignant brain tumours: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy.

R Rampling, A James, V Papanastassiou

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Article in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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24citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Biopsy versus resection for high-grade glioma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
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  2. Temozolomide for high grade glioma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013
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  3. Chemotherapy wafers for high grade glioma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011
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  4. Biopsy versus resection for malignant glioma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2000
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  15. Post-operative diffusion weighted imaging as a predictor of posterior fossa syndrome permanence in paediatric medulloblastoma.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

R RamplingWestern Infirmary, Glasgow, UK. r.rampling@udcf.gla.ac.uk
A James
V Papanastassiou

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsChemotherapy, AdjuvantDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsGenetic TherapyHumansImmunotherapyNeurosurgical ProceduresPalliative CareRadiotherapy

Identifiers

PMID15146036
PMCPMC1765659

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