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ArticleFrontiers in surgery2021

A Synchrotron and Micro-CT Study of the Human Endolymphatic Duct System: Is Meniere's Disease Caused by an Acute Endolymph Backflow?

Hao Li, Gunesh P Rajan, Jeremy Shaw, Seyed Alireza Rohani, Hanif M Ladak, Sumit Agrawal, Helge Rask-Andersen

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Article in Frontiers in surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Imaging meets function: radiological and vestibular predictors of long-term cochlear implant outcomes in patients with Ménière disease.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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  2. Bast's valve: what we know and what we don't.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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  4. Long-term vestibular and audiometric results in meniere's patients following endolymphatic duct blockage, sac drainage or sac decompression.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Hao LiDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Section of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Gunesh P RajanDepartment of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Jeremy ShawCentre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, Perth, WA, Australia.
Seyed Alireza RohaniDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Hanif M LadakDepartment of Medical Biophysics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Sumit AgrawalDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Helge Rask-AndersenDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Section of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Western University · CAUppsala University Hospital · SELuzerner Kantonsspital · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Bast's valvehumanMeniere's diseasereunion ductsynchrotron radiation phase-contrast imaging

Identifiers

PMID34136526
PMCPMC8200827
OpenAlexW3168562375

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