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ArticleWorld neurosurgery2020

Letter to the Editor Regarding Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Northern Italy: Perspectives from the Bergamo Neurosurgery Department, and the Role of Radiosurgery as a Minimally Invasive Procedure for Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma in the Pandemic Outbreak.

Andres M Alvarez Pinzon, Aizik L Wolf, Victor Delgado, Jose E Valerio, Arturo González, José Ramón Alonso

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Article in World neurosurgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Andres M Alvarez PinzonUniversity of Salamanca (USAL), The Institute of Neuroscience of Castilla y León (INCYL), Salamanca, Spain; Miami Neurosciences Center at Larkin, Neurosurgery Oncology Department, South Miami, Florida, USA; Johns Hopkins University, Biotechnology Program, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Electronic address: Aalvar18@jhu.edu.
Aizik L WolfMiami Neurosciences Center at Larkin, Neurosurgery Oncology Department, South Miami, Florida, USA.
Victor DelgadoMiami Neurosciences Center at Larkin, Neurosurgery Oncology Department, South Miami, Florida, USA; Florida International University, Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences, Miami, Florida, USA.
Jose E ValerioMiami Neurosciences Center at Larkin, Neurosurgery Oncology Department, South Miami, Florida, USA.
Arturo GonzálezMiami Neurosciences Center at Larkin, Neurosurgery Oncology Department, South Miami, Florida, USA; Florida International University, Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences, Miami, Florida, USA.
José Ramón AlonsoUniversity of Salamanca (USAL), The Institute of Neuroscience of Castilla y León (INCYL), Salamanca, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsLymphomaNeurosurgeryPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRadiosurgeryBetacoronavirusCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksHumansItalyNervous SystemSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32380338
PMCPMC7198397

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Registered trials

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