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ArticleInternational braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology

Focal therapy for prostate cancer - index lesion treatment vs. hemiablation. A matter of definition.

Armando Stabile, Marco Moschini, Francesco Montorsi, Xavier Cathelineau, Rafael Sanchez-Salas

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Article in International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Available evidence on HIFU for focal treatment of prostate cancer: a systematic review.International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology
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  9. Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India
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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.

Armando StabileDepartment of Urology and Division of Experimental Oncology, URI, Urological Research Institute, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Marco MoschiniKlinik fur Urologie, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Francesco MontorsiDepartment of Urology and Division of Experimental Oncology, URI, Urological Research Institute, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Xavier CathelineauDepartment of Urology, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris and Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
Rafael Sanchez-SalasDepartment of Urology, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris and Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound AblationHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleProstatic NeoplasmsReproducibility of ResultsTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID31626515
PMCPMC6844335

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