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ReviewCurrent urology reports2012

Evaluation of treatment response in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma: role of state-of-the-art cross-sectional imaging.

Venkata S Katabathina, Nathalie Lassau, Ivan Pedrosa, Chaan S Ng, Srinivasa R Prasad

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Review in Current urology reports, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. MRI phenotype in renal cancer: is it clinically relevant?Topics in magnetic resonance imaging : TMRI · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Venkata S KatabathinaDepartment of Radiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Nathalie Lassau
Ivan Pedrosa
Chaan S Ng
Srinivasa R Prasad

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in genetics and oncology have led to development of a wide array of molecular therapeutics in the management of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. These drugs have revolutionized the treatment of advanced disease by significantly improving patient outcomes. State-of-the-art cross-sectional imaging techniques play a seminal role in the evaluation of treatment response by providing reproducible, objective data, thereby permitting accurate quantification of tumor burden. Evolving functional imaging techniques such as perfusion and diffusion studies continue to advance the technology beyond assessing changes in tumor size and morphology.

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Carcinoma, Renal CellCombined Modality TherapyDiagnostic ImagingHumansKidney NeoplasmsReproducibility of ResultsTreatment Outcome

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