ArticleEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2019
Reply to the Letter to the Editor of L. Liang et al. concerning "Is MIS-TLIF superior to open TLIF in obese patients?: A systematic review and meta-analysis" by Tan JH et al. (Eur Spine J, 2018; doi: 10.1007/s00586-018-5630-0).
Article in European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
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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.
The trial behind it
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