Some Work on the Diagnosis and Management of Kidney Stones with Ultrasound.

Julianna C Simon, Adam D Maxwell, Michael R Bailey

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Article in Acoustics today, 2017. 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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2citing 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

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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.

Abdominal Ultrasound Simulation from Semantic Labels Using Paired Label-to-Physics-Based Image Translation.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2026
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Summary of "Biomedical Acoustics and Physical Acoustics: Shock Waves and Ultrasound for Calculus Fragmentation".Proceedings of meetings on acoustics. Acoustical Society of America · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Julianna C SimonGraduate Program in Acoustics, Pennsylvania State University, 201E Applied Science Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

Adam D MaxwellCenter for Industrial and Medical, Ultrasound, Applied Physics Laboratory and Department of Urology, University of Washington, 1013 NE 40th Street, Seattle, Washington 98105, USA.

Michael R BaileyCenter for Industrial and Medical, Ultrasound, Applied Physics Laboratory;, Department of Mechanical Engineering; and Department of Urology, University of Washington, 1013 NE 40th Street, Seattle, Washington 98105, USA.

Funding

SWL AND RENAL INJURY AND STONE COMMINUTIONP01DK043881 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI BAILEY, MICHAEL R · 1994 to 2023

$33.5M

Noninvasive fragmentation of urinary calculi with focused ultrasound burstsK01DK104854 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI MAXWELL, ADAM DOUGLAS · 2015 to 2019

$686k

NIDDK NIH HHS K01 DK104854NIDDK NIH HHS P01 DK043881

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultrasound is currently the only noninvasive technology able to completely diagnose and manage kidney stones.

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PMID30271311

PMCPMC6162072

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