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ReviewIndian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India2021

Regenerative Medicine Treatments for Androgenetic Alopecia.

Venkataram Mysore, Sajin Alexander, Suman Nepal, Aniketh Venkataram

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Review in Indian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

4 authors.

Venkataram MysoreThe Venkat Center for Skin ENT and Plastic Surgery, Bangalore, India.
Sajin AlexanderDepartment of Dermatology, Sony Memorial Hospital, Erumely, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
Suman NepalAvaram Skin Clinic, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Aniketh VenkataramThe Venkat Center for Skin ENT and Plastic Surgery, Bangalore, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regenerative medicine and the role of stem cells are being studied for applications in nearly every field of medicine. The pluripotent nature of stem cells underlies their vast potential for treatment of androgenic alopecia. Several advances in recent years have heightened interest in this field, chief among them are the evolution of simpler techniques to isolate regenerative elements and stems cells. These techniques are easy, outpatient procedures with immediate injection, often single session with harvest, and minimal manipulation (usually physical). This paper seeks to critically review the existing data and determine the current evidence and their role in practice.

Indexed as

androgenetic alopeciananofatplateletrich plasmaregenerative medicinestem cells

Identifiers

PMID34984094
PMCPMC8719950

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