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ArticleKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2016

There is no simple lateral ankle sprain.

G M M J Kerkhoffs, J G Kennedy, J D F Calder, J Karlsson

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Article in Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 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

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

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  4. The ankle sprain and the domino effect.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2024
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  10. Ankle arthroscopy: the wave that's coming.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2020
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  11. Osteochondral lesions of the talus.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2019
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  12. Preoperative MRI is helpful but not sufficient to detect associated lesions in patients with chronic ankle instability.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2018
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  13. Operative treatment of lateral ligament instability.Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

G M M J KerkhoffsDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. g.m.kerkhoffs@amc.uva.nl.
J G KennedyHospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA.
J D F CalderFortius Clinic, London, UK.
J KarlssonDepartment of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Ankle InjuriesHumansOrthopedic ProceduresSprains and Strains

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