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ReviewSeminars in interventional radiology2019

Radiofrequency Ablation, Where It Stands in Interventional Radiology Today.

Vipulkumar Patel, Charles A Ritchie, Carlos Padula, J Mark McKinney

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In one paragraph

Review in Seminars in interventional radiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vipulkumar PatelDepartment of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
Charles A RitchieDepartment of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
Carlos PadulaDepartment of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
J Mark McKinneyDepartment of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
Jacksonville College · USMayo Clinic in Florida · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is one of the first developed minimally invasive definitive cancer therapies. The safety and efficacy of RFA is well documented and has led to its incorporation into multiple international societal guidelines. By expanding on the body of knowledge acquired during the clinical use of RFA, alternative ablative technologies have emerged and are successfully competing for locoregional therapy market share. The adaption of newer ablative technologies is leading to a rapid decline in the utilization of RFA by interventional radiologists despite the lack of proven superiority. In their 2010 article, Hong and Georgiades stated "… RFA is likely to remain the mainstay of ablations for small tumors until sufficient experience emerges for the widespread acceptance for alternative ablative modalities." Within a decade of this publication, has this time arrived?

Indexed as

cancercryoablationmicrowave ablationradiofrequency ablation

Identifiers

PMID31798214
PMCPMC6887522
OpenAlexW2992139956

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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