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ArticleInternational journal of colorectal disease2020

Letter to the editor regarding "Does adding lateral pelvic lymph node dissection to neoadjuvant chemotherapy improve outcomes in low rectal cancer?"

Xubing Zhang, Yuanchuan Zhang, Mingtian Wei, Meng Wang, Xuyang Yang, Xiangbing Deng, Ziqiang Wang

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Article in International journal of colorectal disease, 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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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.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Xubing ZhangDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang No. 37, Chengdu, 610041, China.
Yuanchuan ZhangDepartment of General Surgery, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu, China.
Mingtian WeiDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang No. 37, Chengdu, 610041, China.
Meng WangDepartment of General Surgery, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu, China.
Xuyang YangDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang No. 37, Chengdu, 610041, China.
Xiangbing DengDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang No. 37, Chengdu, 610041, China.
Ziqiang WangDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang No. 37, Chengdu, 610041, China. wangzqzyh@163.com.ORCID 0000-0002-2874-1535

Funding

1•3•5 project for disciplines of excellence-Clinical Research Incubation Project, West China Hospital, Sichuan University No. 2019HXFH031
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Neoadjuvant TherapyRectal NeoplasmsHumansLymph Node Excision

Identifiers

PMID32666289

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