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ArticleAnnals of the rheumatic diseases2020

Is it time to redefine the role of low-dose radiotherapy for benign disease?

Angel Montero, Sebastia Sabater, Franz Rödel, Udo S Gaipl, Oliver J Ott, Michael Heinrich Seegenschmiedt, Meritxell Arenas

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Article in Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Intra-articular use of radium dichloride ([European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2021
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  6. Low-dose radiotherapy for painful osteoarthritis of the elderly: A multicenter analysis of 970 patients with 1185 treated sites.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2021
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  12. Low-Dose radiation therapy for benign pathologies.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Angel MonteroDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Hospital Universitario HM Sanchinarro, Madrid, Spain.
Sebastia SabaterDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Albacete, Spain.
Franz RödelDepartment of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Udo S GaiplDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
Oliver J OttDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
Michael Heinrich SeegenschmiedtDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Strahlenzentrum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Meritxell ArenasDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, University of Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain meritxell.arenas@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Osteoarthritis, KneeHumansInflammationhand osteoarthritisknee osteoarthritisosteoarthritis

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