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SynthesisNeurosurgical review2018

Conservative and surgical treatment of pediatric asymptomatic lumbosacral lipoma: a meta-analysis.

Yang Xiong, Liu Yang, Wang Zhen, Dong Fangyong, Wan Feng, Lei Ting

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Synthesis in Neurosurgical review, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Lumbosacral lipoma in childhood, how strong is the evidence base? A systematic review.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2024
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Effectiveness of conus lipoma surgery-a case series.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025
    Article
  4. Surgery for spina bifida occulta: spinal lipoma and tethered spinal cord.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2023
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yang XiongDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jie Fang Avenue, Hankou, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
Liu YangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jie Fang Avenue, Hankou, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
Wang ZhenDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jie Fang Avenue, Hankou, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
Dong FangyongDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jie Fang Avenue, Hankou, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
Wan FengDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jie Fang Avenue, Hankou, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China. wanruiyan@hotmail.com.
Lei TingDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jie Fang Avenue, Hankou, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
Tongji Hospital · CNHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study is to compare the outcomes of surgical and conservative treatments of pediatric asymptomatic lumbosacral lipomas, and to address whether the patients can benefit from prophylactic surgeries. The literature reports of surgical and conservative treatments of child asymptomatic lumbosacral lipomas were reviewed and collected, and a meta-analysis of the reports regarding the incidence of sphincter and lower limb dysfunctions was performed. A total of five literatures were collected, containing a total of 403 patients, among which 124 patients received conservative treatments with 32 (25.81%) cases developing neurological dysfunctions during follow-up, and 279 received prophylactic surgical treatments with 30 (10.75%) patients developing neurological dysfunctions in follow-up, the difference being statistically significant (P ≤ 0.05). For pediatric asymptomatic lumbosacral lipomas of the three major subtypes, the limited source of literature so far suggests that prophylactic surgery is superior to conservative strategy in preventing the patients from neurological deterioration. Larger patient cohorts, randomized studies, and longer length of follow-ups are needed for further corroboration.

Indexed as

AdolescentChildChild, PreschoolConservative TreatmentHumansInfantLipomaLumbosacral RegionSpinal Cord NeoplasmsTreatment OutcomeAsymptomatic, lumbosacral lipomaConservative and surgical treatmentNeurologic dysfunctionPediatric

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PMID27796602
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