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ReviewAnnals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England2018

Robotics in otorhinolaryngology - head and neck surgery.

George Garas, Neil Tolley

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In one paragraph

Review in Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. [Progress in the application of robotic technology in thyroid surgery].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2025
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  5. New robotic platform for transoral robotic surgery: an IDEAL stage 0 study.BMJ surgery, interventions, & health technologies · 2024
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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

2 authors.

George GarasDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London.
Neil TolleyDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A look at the past, present and future.

Indexed as

HumansLaryngectomyOropharyngeal NeoplasmsOtorhinolaryngologic Surgical ProceduresParathyroidectomyRobotic Surgical ProceduresSleep Apnea, ObstructiveThyroidectomy

Identifiers

PMID30179045
PMCPMC6216749

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.