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ReviewSeminars in reproductive medicine2017

Uterine Fibroids: Burden and Unmet Medical Need.

Ayman Al-Hendy, Evan Robert Myers, Elizabeth Stewart

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Review in Seminars in reproductive medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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120citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

120 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Preoperative medical therapy before surgery for uterine fibroids.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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60 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors.

Ayman Al-HendyDivision of Translational Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia.
Evan Robert MyersDivision of Clinical and Epidemiological Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Elizabeth StewartDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Evidence-Based MedicineCombined Modality TherapyCost of IllnessFemaleGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenetic VariationHealth Care CostsHealth Services AccessibilityHumansInfertility, FemaleLeiomyomaLeiomyomatosisPractice Guidelines as TopicQuality of LifeUterine Neoplasms

Identifiers

PMID29100234
PMCPMC6193285

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Registered trials

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