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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2017

Comparative Therapeutic Efficacy of

Sarika Sharma, Baljinder Singh, Ashwani Koul, Bhagwant Rai Mittal

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 41 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sarika SharmaDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Baljinder SinghDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Ashwani KoulDepartment of Biophysics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Bhagwant Rai MittalDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research · INPanjab University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe aim of the present study was to compare the therapeutic efficacy of MATERIALS AND

methodsThirty patients (25 M:5 F, mean age: 66.0 ± 14.7 years) of breast/prostate cancer with documented skeletal metastases were recruited prospectively. Twenty patients were considered randomly for treatment with

resultsA total of 86 metastatic lesions clearly visualized on post-therapy serial images (matching on bone scans) were evaluated for absorbed dose calculations. Both

conclusionBoth the radionuclides thus offer an effective and comparable therapeutic efficacy for bone pain palliation at an affordable cost and can be used interchangeably as per the availability.

Indexed as

153Sm-EDTMP177Lu-EDTMPbone pain palliationpain scoringpatients’ dosimetryprostate/breast cancerskeletal metastases

Identifiers

PMID28507988
PMCPMC5410571
OpenAlexW2611138714

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