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ReviewOpen access journal of sports medicine2014

Post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis in the young patient: therapeutic dilemmas and emerging technologies.

Matthew Stiebel, Larry E Miller, Jon E Block

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Review in Open access journal of sports medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Predictors of knee joint loading after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society · 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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew StiebelPalm Beach Sports Medicine, West Palm Beach, FL, USA.
Larry E MillerMiller Scientific Consulting, Inc, Asheville, NC, USA ; The Jon Block Group, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Jon E BlockThe Jon Block Group, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Palm Beach Neurology · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic knee injury is common in young adults and strongly contributes to premature development of knee osteoarthritis (OA). Post-traumatic knee OA poses a therapeutic dilemma to the physician, since no known therapy has an acceptable safety profile, effectively relieves joint pain, and enjoys reasonable patient acceptance. Consequently, these young patients will ultimately be faced with the decision to either undergo surgical intervention, despite prosthesis durability concerns, or to continue with ineffective nonsurgical treatment. Emerging therapies, such as biologics, disease-modifying drugs, partial joint resurfacings, and minimally invasive joint-unloading implants are currently being studied to fill this therapeutic void in the young patient with post-traumatic knee OA.

Indexed as

implantinjuryjoint unloadingKineSpringkneeminimally invasiveosteoarthritispost-traumatic

Identifiers

PMID24744616
PMCPMC3986283
OpenAlexW2082631431

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