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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2021

Meibomian Gland Dysfunction: Intense Pulsed Light Therapy in Combination with Low-Level Light Therapy as Rescue Treatment.

Leonidas Solomos, Walid Bouthour, Ariane Malclès, Gabriele Thumann, Horace Massa

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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 17 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Leonidas SolomosClinic of Ophthalmology, Geneva University Hospitals & Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Walid BouthourClinic of Ophthalmology, Geneva University Hospitals & Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3877-4127
Ariane MalclèsClinic of Ophthalmology, Geneva University Hospitals & Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Gabriele ThumannClinic of Ophthalmology, Geneva University Hospitals & Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Horace MassaClinic of Ophthalmology, Geneva University Hospitals & Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-5025-3856
University of Geneva · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Intense Pulsed Light TherapyLow-Level Light TherapyMeibomian Gland DysfunctionHumansMeibomian GlandsQuality of LifeRetrospective StudiesTearsdry eye diseaseintense pulsed lightlow-level light therapymeibomian gland dysfunction

Identifiers

PMID34198493
PMCPMC8231972
OpenAlexW3166360680

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Registered trials

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