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ArticleCanadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada2017

Canadian Urological Association-Pediatric Urologists of Canada (CUA-PUC) guideline for the diagnosis, management, and followup of cryptorchidism.

Luis H Braga, Armando J Lorenzo, Rodrigo L P Romao

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Article in Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Highly Complete Follow-Up Data Are Necessary to Ascertain the Actual Complication Rate in Orchidopexy for Undescended Testes.International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association · 2025
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  12. Undescended testis: an epidemiological study from a single institution.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2025
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  15. Case series - Azoospermia to oligozoospermia following bilateral orchidopexy in adults with undescended testicles A Canadian first.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Luis H BragaDivision of Urology, McMaster Children's Hospital and McMaster University, Hamilton, ON; Canada.
Armando J LorenzoDivision of Urology, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; Canada.
Rodrigo L P RomaoDivision of Urology, IWK Health Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID28761584
PMCPMC5519382

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