Letter to the editor: where is the lateral femoral wall?

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.

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.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A proposed three‑dimensional anatomical definition and morphometric quantification of the lateral femoral wall: a reliable CT‑based measurement system validated across two software platforms.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2026
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2. Risk factors for intertrochanteric femoral fractures with concomitant lateral wall involvement in elderly women.Frontiers in surgery · 2025
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3. The remnant axial cortical length of the proximal femur in pertrochanteric fractures: a three-dimensional computed tomography study and its clinical implications.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023
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4. Sub-Classification of AO/OTA-2018 Pertrochanteric Fractures Is Associated With Clinical Outcomes After Fixation of Intramedullary Nails.Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation · 2021
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5. The effect on outcomes of the application of circumferential cerclage cable following intramedullary nailing in reverse intertrochanteric femoral fractures.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2019
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6. [Research progress of lateral wall injury of intertrochanteric fracture].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2018
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7. Authors response: the lateral femoral wall.International orthopaedics · 2015
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Corrections and comments

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  Authors response: the lateral femoral wall.2015
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  Proximal femoral nails compared with reverse distal femoral locking plates in intertrochanteric fractures with a compromised lateral wall; a randomised controlled trial.2014

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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