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ReviewCurrent urology reports2017

Tissue Preservation Techniques at the Time of Urethroplasty for Urethral Stricture Disease.

Robert Caleb Kovell, Alexander J Skokan

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Review in Current urology reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert Caleb KovellPerelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania Health System, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, 3rd Floor - West Pavilion, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. robert.kovell@uphs.upenn.edu.
Alexander J SkokanPerelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania Health System, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, 3rd Floor - West Pavilion, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
University of Pennsylvania Health System · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reconstructive surgery for urethral stricture disease seeks to re-establish long-lasting urethral patency while minimizing associated adverse effects. In recent years, genitourinary reconstructive surgeons have developed and refined a number of techniques that seek to decrease the impact of urethroplasty on local tissues including blood supply and innervation. This review presents an outline of recent advances in urethral reconstructive techniques that seek to minimize surgical impact, including tissue preservation, tissue engineering, and minimally invasive approaches and reviews the current state of the literature related to these techniques.

Indexed as

Blood VesselsHumansMinimally Invasive Surgical ProceduresOrgan Sparing TreatmentsPlastic Surgery ProceduresPudendal NerveTissue EngineeringTissue PreservationUrethraUrethral StrictureMinimally invasive surgeryNon-transecting approachTissue engineeringUrethral reconstructionUrethroplastyVessel sparing

Identifiers

PMID28589401
OpenAlexW2622562214

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.