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SynthesisTumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine2014

The prognostic value of elevated ezrin in patients with osteosarcoma.

Deng-Xing Lun, Yong-Cheng Hu, Zhao-Wan Xu, Li-Na Xu, Bin-Wu Wang

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Synthesis in Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine, 2014. 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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5citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. The clinical significance of changes in ezrin expression in osteosarcoma of children and young adults.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2016
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Comment on Lun et al. entitled "The prognostic value of elevated ezrin in patients with osteosarcoma".Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Deng-Xing LunDepartment of Spine Surgery, Weifang People's Hospital, Guangwen Road, Kuiwen District, Weifang City, Shandong Province, 261041, China.
Yong-Cheng Hu
Zhao-Wan Xu
Li-Na Xu
Bin-Wu Wang
Weifang People's Hospital · CNTianjin Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Published studies researching the prognostic significance of ezrin expression in patients with osteosarcoma are inconclusive and heterogeneous. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess its prognostic value more precisely. The hazard ratios with corresponding 95 % confidence intervals were calculated to evaluate the effects. Five studies with 318 osteosarcoma patients were included to estimate the relationship between ezrin and disease-free survival, and ezrin and overall survival. Compared with osteosarcoma patients with low or negative ezrin expression, patients with high ezrin expression tended to be associated with lower disease-free survival, but the difference was not significant. However, patients with high ezrin expression were obviously associated with lower overall survival. Therefore, the findings from this systematic review suggest that ezrin expression is an effective biomarker of prognosis in patients with osteosarcoma.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorBone NeoplasmsCytoskeletal ProteinsDisease-Free SurvivalEzrinGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansOsteosarcomaPrognosisBiomarkers, TumorCytoskeletal ProteinsEzrin

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PMID24014052
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