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ArticleEndoscopy international open2016

Clinical outcomes of endoscopic ultrasound-guided ethanol injection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the caudate lobe.

So Nakaji, Nobuto Hirata, Rintaro Mikata, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Toshiyasu Shiratori, Sadahisa Ogasawara, Yoshihiko Ooka, Toshio Tsuyuguchi, Taketo Yamaguchi, Osamu Yokosuka

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Article in Endoscopy international open, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Endo-Hepatology: Paradigm Shift in Endosonographic Diagnosis for Liver Disease to Digestive Endoscopy.Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society · 2026
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  3. Technical considerations in endoscopic ultrasound-guided liver biopsy: A comprehensive review.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2026
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  4. Ablation manual for liver cancer.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

So NakajiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Kameda Medical Center.
Nobuto HirataDepartment of Gastroenterology, Kameda Medical Center.
Rintaro MikataDepartment of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University.
Masayoshi KobayashiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Kameda Medical Center.
Toshiyasu ShiratoriDepartment of Gastroenterology, Kameda Medical Center.
Sadahisa OgasawaraDepartment of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University.
Yoshihiko OokaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University.
Toshio TsuyuguchiDepartment of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University.
Taketo YamaguchiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Chiba Cancer Center.
Osamu YokosukaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID27747288
PMCPMC5063731

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