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ArticleKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2019

Primary repair of the anterior cruciate ligament: real innovation or reinvention of the wheel?

Sufian S Ahmad, Gregory S Difelice, Jelle P van der List, Atesch Ateschrang, Michael T Hirschmann

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Article in Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Seventy percent long-term survival of the repaired ACL after dynamic intraligamentary stabilization.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2020
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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.

Sufian S AhmadDepartment of Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Trauma Center Tübingen, Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. sufian@ahmadortho.com.
Gregory S DifeliceOrthopaedic Trauma Service, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
Jelle P van der ListDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Spaarne Gasthuis, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands.
Atesch AteschrangDepartment of Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Trauma Center Tübingen, Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Michael T HirschmannDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital Baselland (Bruderholz, Liestal, Laufen), Bruderholz, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anterior Cruciate LigamentAnterior Cruciate Ligament InjuriesAnterior Cruciate Ligament ReconstructionHumans

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PMID30523368

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