Hip Arthroscopy and Heterotopic Ossification: Is NSAID Prophylaxis Justified? Commentary on an article by James T. Beckmann, MD, MS, et al.: "Effect of Naproxen Prophylaxis on Heterotopic Ossification Following Hip Arthroscopy: A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial".

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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Incidence of Heterotopic Ossification Without Additional Long-Term NSAID Prophylaxis After Periacetabular Osteotomy and Concomitant Hip Arthroscopy.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2025
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2. Heterotopic Ossification in Hip Arthroscopy: an Updated Review.Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine · 2019
   Review
3. Local influence of high molecular polyethylene particles on heterotopic ossification.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2017
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Effect of Naproxen Prophylaxis on Heterotopic Ossification Following Hip Arthroscopy: A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial.2015

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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