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ArticleThe Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology2017

Efficacy of Fractional Carbon Dioxide Laser in the Treatment of Mature Burn Scars: A Clinical, Histopathological, and Histochemical Study.

Khaled El-Hoshy, Mona R E Abdel-Halim, Dina Dorgham, Safinaz Salah El-Din Sayed, Mona El-Kalioby

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Article in The Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  7. Fractional Ablative Carbon Dioxide Lasers for the Treatment of Morphea: A Case Series and Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  9. [Clinical effect of fractional carbon dioxide laser in the treatment of contracture scars].Zhonghua shao shang za zhi = Zhonghua shaoshang zazhi = Chinese journal of burns · 2021
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 5 countries.

Khaled El-HoshyDr. El-Hoshy is Professor of Dermatology.
Mona R E Abdel-HalimDr. El-Hoshy is Professor of Dermatology.
Dina DorghamDr. El-Hoshy is Professor of Dermatology.
Safinaz Salah El-Din SayedDr. El-Hoshy is Professor of Dermatology.
Mona El-KaliobyDr. El-Hoshy is Professor of Dermatology.
Goodyear (United Kingdom) · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

burn scarscollagenelastic fibersFractional carbon dioxide (CO2) laserMasson’s trichromeorcein

Identifiers

PMID29399265
PMCPMC5774902
OpenAlexW2996265684

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Registered trials

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