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ReviewGastroenterology research and practice2017

Chemotherapy Plus Cetuximab versus Chemotherapy Alone for Patients with KRAS Wild Type Unresectable Liver-Confined Metastases Colorectal Cancer: An Updated Meta-Analysis of RCTs.

W Lv, G Q Zhang, A Jiao, B C Zhao, Y Shi, B M Chen, J L Zhang

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Review in Gastroenterology research and practice, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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.

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

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

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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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

W LvDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Surgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.
G Q ZhangDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Surgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China; Department of Clinical Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China.
A JiaoDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Surgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.
B C ZhaoDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Surgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.
Y ShiDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Surgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.
B M ChenDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Surgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.
J L ZhangDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Surgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2617-2735
First Hospital of China Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID28167959
PMCPMC5266801
OpenAlexW2579150807

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