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ArticleJournal of minimal access surgery

Resection of a giant nonparasitic splenic cyst by minilaparoscopy.

Gustavo Lopes de Carvalho, Gustavo Henrique Belarmino de Góes, Raimundo Hugo Matias Furtado, Raquel Nogueira Cordeiro, Marianna de Castro Araújo Lessa

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Article in Journal of minimal access surgery. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Minimally invasive surgery for giant splenic cysts.Journal of minimal access surgery · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gustavo Lopes de CarvalhoFaculty of Medical Sciences, University of Pernambuco; Videolaparoscopic Surgery Clinic Gustavo Carvalho, Recife; UNIPECLIN (Clinical Research Group of the University of Pernambuco), Brazil.
Gustavo Henrique Belarmino de GóesFaculty of Medical Sciences, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Raimundo Hugo Matias FurtadoOswaldo Cruz University Hospital, Recife, Brazil.
Raquel Nogueira CordeiroPernambuco Health College, Recife, Brazil.
Marianna de Castro Araújo LessaFaculty of Medical Sciences, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Universidade de Pernambuco · BRHospital Universitário Oswaldo Cruz · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A female patient, 20 years old, with a history of a progressive increase in abdominal volume on the left side, starting 3 years ago, with no associated symptoms and no history of trauma. Ultrasonography and a computed tomography scan of the abdomen were performed, which revealed a large splenomegaly, and a partial minilaparoscopic splenectomy was indicated. We opted for unroofing of the cyst, and the procedure was uneventful, with a total surgical time of 47 min. The patient progressed clinically well, without abdominal pain, being discharged on the 2

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Abdominal surgeryminimally invasive surgeryneedlescopic surgerypartial splenectomysplenic cystvideo surgery

Identifiers

PMID29737321
PMCPMC6293669
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