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ArticleWorld journal of surgery2021

Authors' Reply: Ilioinguinal Nerve Neurectomy is better than Preservation in Lichtenstein Hernia Repair: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis.

Roberto Cirocchi, Marco Sutera, Piergiorgio Fedeli, Gabriele Anania, Piero Covarelli, Fabio Suadoni, Carlo Boselli, Luigi Carlini, Stefano Trastulli, Vito D'Andrea and 1 more

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Article in World journal of surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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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

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.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Roberto CirocchiDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. roberto.cirocchi@unipg.it.ORCID 0000-0002-2457-0636
Marco SuteraDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Piergiorgio FedeliInguinal Nerve Working Group, Perugia, Italy.
Gabriele AnaniaInstitute of Legal Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
Piero CovarelliDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Fabio SuadoniDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Carlo BoselliDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Luigi CarliniDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Stefano TrastulliDepartment of Digestive Surgery, AOSP of Terni, Terni, Italy.
Vito D'AndreaInguinal Nerve Working Group, Perugia, Italy.
Paolo BruzzoneInguinal Nerve Working Group, Perugia, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Hernia, InguinalHerniorrhaphyDenervationHumansInguinal Canal

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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.