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ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2020

Improved telangiectasia and reduced recurrence rate of rosacea after treatment with 540 nm-wavelength intense pulsed light: A prospective randomized controlled trial with a 2-year follow-up.

Yang Luo, Xiu-Li Luan, Jian-Hong Zhang, Lan-Xi Wu, Nan Zhou

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Article in Experimental and therapeutic medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Laser and energy-based devices for treating rosacea - a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft = Journal of the German Society of Dermatology : JDDG · 2026
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  8. Current Trends and Future Insights on Rosacea Treatment: A Bibliometric Analysis.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2025
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  9. Mechanisms and Recent Advances of Small-Molecule Therapeutics in Rosacea Treatment.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yang LuoDepartment of Dermatology, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, Gansu 730050, P.R. China.
Xiu-Li LuanDepartment of Dermatology, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, Gansu 730050, P.R. China.
Jian-Hong ZhangDepartment of Dermatology, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, Gansu 730050, P.R. China.
Lan-Xi WuDepartment of Dermatology, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, Gansu 730050, P.R. China.
Nan ZhouDepartment of Dermatology, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, Gansu 730050, P.R. China.
117th Hospital of People's Liberation Army · CNChinese People's Liberation Army · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of 540 nm-wavelength intense pulsed light (IPL) for the treatment of telangiectasia in late-stage rosacea. Between July 2013 and January 2016, patients with rosacea who tested positive for

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intense pulsed lightrosaceatelangiectasia

Identifiers

PMID32346416
PMCPMC7185073
OpenAlexW3011922654

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