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ArticlePLoS medicine2008

Faecal and urinary incontinence after multimodality treatment of rectal cancer.

Marilyne M Lange, Cornelis J H van de Velde

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Transanal irrigation in clinical practice: a scoping review.International journal of colorectal disease · 2026
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  12. DNA methylation of apoptosis genes in rectal cancer predicts patient survival and tumor recurrence.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2014
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  14. Neoadjuvant therapy before surgical treatment.EJC supplements : EJC : official journal of EORTC, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer ... [et al.] · 2013
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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

2 authors.

Marilyne M LangeDepartment of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Cornelis J H van de Velde

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AgedCombined Modality TherapyFecal IncontinenceFemaleHumansPostoperative ComplicationsRadiotherapyRectal NeoplasmsUrinary Incontinence

Identifiers

PMID18842066
PMCPMC2561075

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