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ArticleAesthetic plastic surgery2016

Use of Platelet Preparations in Facial Rejuvenation and Wound Healing Remains Unproven.

William Kenworthy, Benjamin Langridge, Nakul Patel, Norman Waterhouse

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Article in Aesthetic plastic surgery, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

William KenworthyUniversity College London Medical School, Gower Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. william.kenworthy.11@ucl.ac.uk.
Benjamin LangridgeUniversity College London Medical School, Gower Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Nakul PatelWellington Hospital, London, UK.
Norman WaterhouseWellington Hospital, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

unlabelledThere is growing interest in the use of platelet derivatives in facial aesthetic surgery and wound healing. Sclafani et al. have concluded from their review of the literature that the vast majority of studies show a significant and measurable effect on facial aesthetic outcomes with the use of these platelet preparations. We suggest that an alternative review of the same literature may well have produced a different set of conclusions. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE V: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266.

Indexed as

Blood PlateletsCosmetic TechniquesFacePlatelet-Rich PlasmaRejuvenationWound HealingAnimalsHumansFacial estheticsGrowth factorsPlatelet gelPlatelet-rich fibrinPlatelet-rich fibrin matrixPlatelet-rich plasmaPlateletsWound healing

Identifiers

PMID26893279

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