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ArticleLasers in surgery and medicine2021

Fractional Co

Macrene R Alexiades

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Article in Lasers in surgery and medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Fractional COInternational urogynecology journal · 2026
    Review
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  5. Efficacy of Fractional COBiomedicines · 2023
    Article
  6. Review
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  8. Fractional COLasers in surgery and medicine · 2022
    Article
  9. Review
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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Macrene R AlexiadesDermatology and Laser Surgery Center of New York, Yale University School of Medicine, New York, New York.ORCID 0000-0001-9720-9537
Yale University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

objectivesMore studies are needed to assess the long-term safety profile and clinical outcomes of lasers and energy-based devices to treat the symptoms associated with vulvovaginal atrophy. This study evaluated a series of three fractional CO STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND

methodsIn this prospective, self-controlled, open-label clinical study, 18 postmenopausal females with atrophic vaginitis received 3 monthly treatments to the vulva and vagina with a fractional CO

resultsTreatment of the vulva and vagina in postmenopausal women with fractional CO

conclusionFractional CO

Indexed as

Carbon DioxideLasers, GasAtrophyFemaleHumansPostmenopauseProspective StudiesTreatment OutcomeVaginaVulvaCarbon Dioxidefractional CO2 lasergenitourinarylasermenopausevaginavulvovaginal atrophy

Identifiers

PMID32329093
PMCPMC7984360
OpenAlexW3020636412

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