Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29302440›Full record

ArticleJournal of visualized surgery2017

Perspective on uniportal thoracic surgery: where do we stand and what is the future.

Marco Nardini, Rocco Bilancia, Joel Dunning

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Article in Journal of visualized surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Uniportal, single incision VATS for the skeptics.Journal of visualized surgery · 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

3 authors.

Marco NardiniThoracic Surgery Department, University Hospital of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Rocco BilanciaThoracic Surgery Department, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, UK.
Joel DunningDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uniportal video assisted thoracic surgery (U-VATS) is undoubtedly one of the recent most significant innovation in the field of pulmonary resection. The concept of a single incision, minimally invasive, thoracic procedure moved its first step in the late 90'. In more recent years we had several reports of uniportal surgery for major lung resection, complex surgery and also awake major pulmonary surgery. In this perspective we will try to understand the definitions, the potential benefit, its limitation and the future possible evolution of this relatively novel technique.

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lobectomylung cancermicrolobectomyUniportalvideo assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)

Identifiers

PMID29302440
PMCPMC5730516

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