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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and the Aging Spine: Introduction to the Special Issue.

Aria Nouri, Renato Gondar, Joseph S Cheng, Mark R N Kotter, Enrico Tessitore

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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 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. MRI-based endplate bone quality scoring system in cervical OPLL: a novel measuring method predicting titanium mesh cage subsidence following ACCF.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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  3. Comparison of the patient-derived modified Japanese Orthopaedic Association scale and the European myelopathy score.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024
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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Aria NouriDepartment of Neurosurgery, Geneva University Hospitals, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4965-3059
Renato GondarDepartment of Neurosurgery, Geneva University Hospitals, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6291-0347
Joseph S ChengDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA.
Mark R N KotterDivision of Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5145-7199
Enrico TessitoreDepartment of Neurosurgery, Geneva University Hospitals, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
University Hospital of Geneva · CHUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy (DCM) is the most common cause of spinal cord injury in the world, but despite this, there remains many areas of uncertainty regarding the management of the condition. This special issue was dedicated to presenting current research topics in DCM. Within this issue, 12 publications are presented, including an introductory narrative overview of DCM and 11 articles comprising 9 research papers and 2 systematic reviews focusing on different aspects, ranging from genetic factors to clinical assessments, imaging, sagittal balance, surgical treatment, and outcome prediction. These articles represented contributions from a diverse group of researchers coming from multiple countries, including Switzerland, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, South Korea, and Canada.

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Identifiers

PMID32781513
PMCPMC7465261
OpenAlexW3047028509

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