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SynthesisBioscience reports2018

The prognostic significance of pretreatment serum γ-glutamyltranspeptidase in primary liver cancer: a meta-analysis and systematic review.

Yang Ou, Junwei Huang, Liping Yang

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Synthesis in Bioscience reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Yang OuDepartment of General Surgery, Wenjiang District People's Hospital, Sichuan Province People's Hospital of Wenjiang Branch, Chendu, China.
Junwei HuangDepartment of General Surgery, Wenjiang District People's Hospital, Sichuan Province People's Hospital of Wenjiang Branch, Chendu, China.
Liping YangDepartment of General Medicine, Wenjiang District People's Hospital, Sichuan Province People's Hospital of Wenjiang Branch, Wenjiang District 611130, Chendu, Sichuan Province, China 15108459826@163.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

PrognosisBiomarkers, TumorDisease-Free Survivalgamma-GlutamyltransferaseHumansLiver NeoplasmsBiomarkers, Tumorgamma-Glutamyltransferasegamma-glutamyltransferase, humanGamma-glutamyltranspeptidaseHepatocellular carcinomaIntrahepatic cholangiocarcinomaprognosis

Identifiers

PMID30389711
PMCPMC6259011
OpenAlexW2898646182

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Registered trials

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