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ArticleClinical case reports2020

Should kyphoplasty curettes be used in nonosteoporotic patients? A cautionary tale.

Tobias A Mattei, Caio M Perret

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 50% 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, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Tobias A MatteiDivision of Neurosurgery Saint Louis University Saint Louis MO USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8024-7094
Caio M PerretLaboratory for Neuroprotection and Regenerative Strategies Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Fundação Osvaldo Cruz (FioCruz) Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
Saint Louis University · ESUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The authors present the first report of a fracture of the tip of a kyphoplasty curette inside the vertebral body, which occurred during a procedure in a patient with non-osteoporotic fracture. This highlights the need of further biomechanical research focused on the shear load failure properties of such type of pre-bent curettes.

Indexed as

balloon kyphoplastykyphoplasty curettesosteoporotic fracturesvertebral fracturesvertebroplasty

Identifiers

PMID32185035
PMCPMC7069849
OpenAlexW3003200353

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