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ArticleHernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery2020

Comment to: TESLAR for treatment of umbilical/paraumbilical hernia and rectus abdominus diastasis is associated with unacceptable persistent seroma formation. Should subcutaneous endoscopic mesh placement be abandoned?

C Claus, F Malcher, L T Cavazzola

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Article in Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

C ClausMinimally Invasive Surgery Department, Jacques Perissat Institute, Positivo University, Jeremias Maciel Perretto St, 300, Curitiba, 81210-310, Brazil. christiano.claus@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1465-5430
F MalcherDepartment of Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1644-9921
L T CavazzolaDepartment of Surgery, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-2356-2789
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul · BRUniversidade Positivo · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Abdominal WallHernia, VentralHerniorrhaphyHumansSeromaSurgical Mesh

Identifiers

PMID32840704
OpenAlexW3080692512

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.