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ArticleEndocrine2020

Thermal ablation meta-analysis: the need of careful appraisal of meta-analysis methodology.

Pierpaolo Trimboli, Marco Castellana, Luca Maria Sconfienza, Camilla Virili, Lorenzo Carlo Pescatori, Roberto Cesareo, Francesco Giorgino, Roberto Negro, Luca Giovanella, Giovanni Mauri

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Article in Endocrine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Pierpaolo TrimboliClinic for Nuclear Medicine and Competence Center for Thyroid Diseases, Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland. pierpaolo.trimboli@eoc.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-2125-4937
Marco CastellanaDepartment of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Section of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Andrology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
Luca Maria SconfienzaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Camilla ViriliScience and Medico-Surgical Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Lorenzo Carlo PescatoriPostgraduation School in Radiodiagnostic, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Roberto CesareoThyroid and Metabolic Bone Diseases Center, Ospedale Santa Maria Goretti, Latina, Italy.
Francesco GiorginoDepartment of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Section of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Andrology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
Roberto NegroDivision of Endocrinology, "V. Fazzi" Hospital, Lecce, Italy.
Luca GiovanellaClinic for Nuclear Medicine and Competence Center for Thyroid Diseases, Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Giovanni MauriDivision of Interventional Radiology, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Catheter AblationThyroid NoduleHumans

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PMID31659630

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