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ArticleJournal of lasers in medical sciences2020

The Effect of the Fractional Carbon Dioxide Laser on Improving Minoxidil Delivery for the Treatment of Androgenetic Alopecia.

Manal Salah, Nevien Samy, Marwa Mohamed Fawzy, Abdel Razik Farrag, Hany Shehata, Aya Hany

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Article in Journal of lasers in medical sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Study on different fractional COLasers in medical science · 2025
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  5. Fractionated COLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  6. Review
  7. Review
  8. Article
  9. Status of research on the development and regeneration of hair follicles.International journal of medical sciences · 2024
    Review
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Manal SalahDepartment of Medical Applications of Laser, National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences (N.I.L.E.S), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Nevien SamyDepartment of Medical Applications of Laser, National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences (N.I.L.E.S), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Marwa Mohamed FawzyDepartment of Dermatology, Kasr Al Ainy Hospital, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Abdel Razik FarragPathology Department, Medical Division Research National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
Hany ShehataDepartment of Dermatology and Venereology, National Research Centre (NRC), Cairo, Egypt.
Aya HanyDepartment of Dermatology and Venereology, National Research Centre (NRC), Cairo, Egypt.
Cairo University · EGNational Research Centre · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Ablative fractional CO2 laserLaser-assisted drug deliveryMale androgenetic alopeciaMinoxidil

Identifiers

PMID32099624
PMCPMC7008732
OpenAlexW3005941050

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Registered trials

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