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ReviewPediatric radiology2016

A review of the literature for intra-arterial chemotherapy used to treat retinoblastoma.

Emily Wyse, James T Handa, Alan D Friedman, Monica S Pearl

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Review in Pediatric radiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy for Advanced Intraocular Retinoblastoma….Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2026
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  5. Evolving indications for pediatric neurointerventional radiology: A single institutional 25-year experience in infants less than one year of age and a brief historical review.Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences · 2025
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  8. The Use of rAAV2-RB1-Mediated Gene Therapy in Retinoblastoma.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2023
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  9. Comparing internal versus external carotid artery branch delivery of intraarterial chemotherapy for the treatment of retinoblastoma.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Emily WyseDivision of Interventional Neuroradiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
James T HandaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Alan D FriedmanDivision of Pediatric Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Monica S PearlDivision of Interventional Neuroradiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. msmit135@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins Medicine · USChildren's National · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinoblastoma is a malignancy of the retina that usually presents before the age of 5 years. Sporadic retinoblastoma is most often unilateral and with no hereditary influence, whereas familial retinoblastoma presents unilaterally or bilaterally in conjunction with genetic inheritance. Several treatments have been attempted with the goals of saving the child's life, salvaging the eye, and preserving vision. Alternative methods including external beam radiation, systemic chemotherapy and focal therapies have been shown to be effective but carry a risk of enucleation and other complications proportional to the severity of the tumor. Selective intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma began in 1988 in Japan and has emerged in the last 7 years in the United States as a feasible, effective and minimally invasive treatment option. We review the retinoblastoma treatment literature focusing on intra-arterial chemotherapy.

Indexed as

Radiography, InterventionalAntineoplastic AgentsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsChild, PreschoolHumansInfantInfant, NewbornInfusions, Intra-ArterialOphthalmic ArteryRetinal NeoplasmsRetinoblastomaSurvival RateAntineoplastic AgentsChildrenInternational classificationIntra-arterial chemotherapyMelphalanReese–Ellsworth classificationRetinoblastomaSystemic chemotherapy

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PMID26886915
OpenAlexW2278425727

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