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ReviewOphthalmologica. Journal international d'ophtalmologie. International journal of ophthalmology. Zeitschrift fur Augenheilkunde2021

Contributions to Progress in Ophthalmology from Switzerland: From the 16th to the 21st Century.

Ronald D Gerste

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Review in Ophthalmologica. Journal international d'ophtalmologie. International journal of ophthalmology. Zeitschrift fur Augenheilkunde, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Intraocular pressure measurement in keratoconus: a narrative review.International journal of ophthalmology · 2026
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  5. [Retinal detachment surgery: trends over 15 years].Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Ronald D Gerste, North Potomac, Maryland, USA, rdgerste@aol.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are numerous contributions to the development of ophthalmology from Switzerland, a country that holds a very special place in the history of medicine from the age of Paracelsus and Vesal to the current time. This review gives an overview over these contributions and the pioneers, among them Johann Friedrich Horner, Hans Goldmann, Jules Gonin, and Walter Rudolf Hess, one of only two ophthalmologists ever awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. A leading role in this evolution of modern ophthalmology has been played by physicians from Basel, home of Switzerland's oldest university.

Indexed as

OphthalmologistsOphthalmologyHistory, 20th CenturyHumansSwitzerlandCataractFlammer syndromeGlaucomaHistory of ophthalmologyLaserMinimally invasive strabismus surgeryPerimetryRetinal detachmentRetinoblastomaSlit lampSwiss medicine

Identifiers

PMID32836218
PMCPMC8006591

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