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ArticleCureus2021

Use of Indocyanine Green Angiography for Real-Time Assessment of a Sternocleidomastoid Muscle Flap During Complex Facial Reconstruction.

Lisandro Montorfano, Stephen J Bordes, Mauricio Sarmiento Cobos, Emmanuel Alejandro Garcia Lopez, Michael Medina

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Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lisandro MontorfanoGeneral Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, USA.
Stephen J BordesSurgical Anatomy, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA.
Mauricio Sarmiento CobosGeneral Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, USA.
Emmanuel Alejandro Garcia LopezGeneral Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, USA.
Michael MedinaOtolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, USA.
Cleveland Clinic Florida · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Indocyanine green (ICG) angiography is a procedure that uses a fluorescent dye for a variety of medical diagnostics, including the real-time examination of blood flow in tissue. Herein, we report a case in which ICG angiography was used to assess the viability of a sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle flap during post-parotidectomy facial reconstruction. To our knowledge, this is the first report documenting the intraoperative use of ICG for the evaluation of SCM flap perfusion. ICG angiography may prove beneficial for cases involving complex reconstructions and suspected organ hypoperfusion.

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facial reconstructionicg angiographyindocyanine greenmuscle flapscm muscle flapsternocleidomastoid

Identifiers

PMID33884231
PMCPMC8054840
OpenAlexW3139414090

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