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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

The Functional Relevance of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Patients with Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy.

Stefania d'Avanzo, Marco Ciavarro, Luigi Pavone, Gabriele Pasqua, Francesco Ricciardi, Marcello Bartolo, Domenico Solari, Teresa Somma, Oreste de Divitiis, Paolo Cappabianca and 1 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Stefania d'AvanzoDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Federico II University of Naples, 80126 Naples, Italy.
Marco CiavarroI.R.C.C.S. Neuromed, 86077 Pozzilli, Italy.
Luigi PavoneI.R.C.C.S. Neuromed, 86077 Pozzilli, Italy.
Gabriele PasquaMedicine and Health Science Department, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3082-8429
Francesco RicciardiI.R.C.C.S. Neuromed, 86077 Pozzilli, Italy.
Marcello BartoloI.R.C.C.S. Neuromed, 86077 Pozzilli, Italy.
Domenico SolariDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Federico II University of Naples, 80126 Naples, Italy.
Teresa SommaDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Federico II University of Naples, 80126 Naples, Italy.
Oreste de DivitiisDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Federico II University of Naples, 80126 Naples, Italy.
Paolo CappabiancaDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Federico II University of Naples, 80126 Naples, Italy.
Gualtiero InnocenziI.R.C.C.S. Neuromed, 86077 Pozzilli, Italy.
Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo · ITUniversity of Naples Federico II · ITUniversity of Molise · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background

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cervical MRIdegenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM)diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)fractional anisotropy (FA)myelopathy hand

Identifiers

PMID32545316
PMCPMC7355923
OpenAlexW3035035038

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