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ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2021

Is single port laparoscopic cholecystectomy superior to standard cholecystectomy in post-operative pain?

Talal Mohammed Ali Alshahri, Sabry Abounozha, Rashid Ibrahim

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Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Talal Mohammed Ali AlshahriAlfaisal Hospital- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sabry AbounozhaNorthumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
Rashid IbrahimUniversity Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, UK.
Alfaisal University · SANorthumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · GBUniversity Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A best evidence topic has been constructed using a described protocol. The three-part question addressed was: is single port laparoscopic cholecystectomy superior to standard cholecystectomy in post-operative pain? Using the reported search, 8083 papers were found. 8 studies were deemed to be suitable to answer the question. The outcomes assessed were post-operative pain differ in single or standard laparoscopic cholecystectomy, all study used VAS (visual analogue scale). The evidence showed no difference in post-operative pain for patients went for single laparoscopic in compared with standard laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Indexed as

Advantage of single port laparoscopyMinimal invasivePost-operative painPostoperative painSingle port cholecystectomyStandard cholecystectomy

Identifiers

PMID33643645
PMCPMC7895687
OpenAlexW3127624316

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