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ArticleAnnals of surgery2007

Close collaboration between surgeon and pathologist is essential for accurate staging of early colon cancer.

Anton J Bilchik, Carolyn Compton

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Article in Annals of surgery, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Prognostic impact of micrometastases and nodal status in early and advanced oral squamous cell carcinoma.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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  2. Article
  3. Sentinel node biopsy in colorectal cancer: Must we believe it?World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2010
    Article
  4. Review
  5. What's wrong with sentinel node mapping in colon cancer?World journal of gastroenterology · 2007
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anton J Bilchik
Carolyn Compton

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Sentinel Lymph Node BiopsyColonic NeoplasmsColoring AgentsHumansLymphatic MetastasisLymph Node ExcisionLymph NodesNeoplasm StagingPredictive Value of TestsPrognosisColoring Agents

Identifiers

PMID17522510
PMCPMC1876950

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