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ArticleCurrent surgery reports2014

Strategies for Management of Synchronous Colorectal Metastases.

Jason A Castellanos, Nipun B Merchant

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Article in Current surgery reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jason A CastellanosDivision of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Nipun B MerchantDivision of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Funding

Surgical Oncology Training GrantT32CA106183 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI James Richard Goldenring · 2004 to 2026
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NCI NIH HHS T32 CA106183
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The management of synchronous presentation of colorectal cancer and liver metastases has long been a topic of debate and discussion for surgeons due to the unique dilemma of balancing operative timing along with treatment strategy. Operative strategies for resection include staged resection with colon first approach, "reverse" staged resection with liver metastases resected first, and one-stage, or simultaneous, resection of both the primary tumor and liver metastases approach. These operative strategies can be further augmented with perioperative chemotherapy and other novel approaches that may improve resectability and patient survival. The decision on operative timing and approach, however, remains largely dependent on the surgeon's determination of disease resectability, patient fitness, and the need for neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Indexed as

ChemoradiationChemotherapyColorectal cancerCRCHepatectomyLymphadenopathyMetastasessCRLMSynchronous liver metastasis

Identifiers

PMID25431745
PMCPMC4244297

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