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ReviewCureus2021

Orthopedic Implant-Related Biofilm Pathophysiology: A Review of the Literature.

Meletis Rozis, Dimitrios S Evangelopoulos, Spyros G Pneumaticos

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Review in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing 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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Orthopedic implant-related ESBLJournal of surgical case reports · 2025
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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.

Meletis Rozis3rd Orthopaedic Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Dimitrios S Evangelopoulos3rd Orthopaedic Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Spyros G Pneumaticos3rd Orthopaedic Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT Hospital, Athens, GRC.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Orthopedic implant-related infections remain a major problem even nowadays. Bacterial resistance through biofilm formation, in addition to the limited treatment options available, has resulted in an increased effort to better understand pathophysiology mechanisms. We performed a review of the literature in order to identify major biofilm formation pathways through which possible treatment strategies could arise.

Indexed as

biofilm formationosteomyelitis pathophysiology

Identifiers

PMID34306846
PMCPMC8278357

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