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ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2017

External Use of Propolis for Oral, Skin, and Genital Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Soo-Hyun Sung, Gwang-Ho Choi, Nam-Woo Lee, Byung-Cheul Shin

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Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2017. 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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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 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.

  1. Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of the efficacy of propolis mouthwash in cancer therapy-induced oral mucositis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2018
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  3. Ecological, Apicultural, and Therapeutic Value ofFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  13. Propolis and Its Potential to Treat Gastrointestinal Disorders.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2018
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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

4 authors.

Soo-Hyun SungDepartment of Policy Development, National Development Institute of Korean Medicine, Seoul 04554, Republic of Korea.
Gwang-Ho ChoiSchool of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan 50612, Republic of Korea.
Nam-Woo LeeSchool of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan 50612, Republic of Korea.
Byung-Cheul ShinDivision of Clinical Medicine, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan 50612, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0059-2689

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID28265293
PMCPMC5317107

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