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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2019

Synovial Tissue Biopsy Collection by Rheumatologists: Ready for Clinical Implementation?

Marijn Smits, Sebastiaan van de Groes, Rogier M Thurlings

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 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

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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.

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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  5. Arthroscopic Guided Synovial Biopsies.Frontiers in medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marijn SmitsDepartment of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Sebastiaan van de GroesDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Rogier M ThurlingsDepartment of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synovial tissue from arthritis patients is increasingly used for both basic pathophysiological and clinical translational research. This development has been spurred by the development of biotechnological techniques for analysis of complex tissues and the validation of ultrasound guided biopsies for easier tissue sampling. This increasing use of synovial tissue raises questions on standardization of methodologies for tissue processing and cellular & molecular analyses. Furthermore, it raises the question if synovial tissue biopsy analysis may be more widely implemented in clinical practice, what are the methodological hurdles for implementation and what are the lessons that can be learned from previous experience. This will be the focus of this review.

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arthritisbiopsyclinical practiceimplementationsynovial tissue

Identifiers

PMID31281817
PMCPMC6595539

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