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ReviewCancers2022

Role of Radiology in the Preoperative Detection of Arterial Calcification and Celiac Trunk Stenosis and Its Association with Anastomotic Leakage Post Esophagectomy, an Up-to-Date Review of the Literature.

Antonios Tzortzakakis, Georgios Kalarakis, Biying Huang, Eleni Terezaki, Emmanouil Koltsakis, Aristotelis Kechagias, Andrianos Tsekrekos, Ioannis Rouvelas

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Review in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 13 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Antonios TzortzakakisDepartment of Clinical Science, Division of Radiology, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-7563-732X
Georgios KalarakisDepartment of Clinical Science, Division of Radiology, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5333-5993
Biying HuangDepartment of Upper Abdominal Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden.
Eleni TerezakiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, 171 64 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5836-0672
Emmanouil KoltsakisDepartment of Radiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, 171 64 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-2964-315X
Aristotelis KechagiasDepartment of Digestive Surgery, Kanta-Häme Central Hospital, 13530 Hämeenlinna, Finland.
Andrianos TsekrekosDepartment of Upper Abdominal Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2128-7157
Ioannis RouvelasDepartment of Upper Abdominal Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0774-1904
Karolinska University Hospital · SEKanta-Hämeen Keskussairaala · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surgical resection of the esophagus remains a critical component of the multimodal treatment of esophageal cancer. Anastomotic leakage (AL) is the most significant complication following esophagectomy, in terms of clinical implications. Identifying risk factors for AL is important for modifying patient management and improving surgical outcomes. This review aims to examine the role of radiological risk factors for AL after esophagectomy, and in particular, arterial calcification and celiac trunk stenosis. Eligible publications prior to 25 August 2021 were retrieved from Medline and Google Scholar using a predefined search algorithm. A total of 68 publications were identified, of which 9 original studies remained for in-depth analysis. The majority of these studies found correlations between calcifications in the aorta, celiac trunk, and right post-celiac arteries and AL following esophagectomy. Some studies suggest celiac trunk stenosis as a more appropriate surrogate. Our up-to-date review highlights the need for automated quantification of aortic calcifications, as well as the degree of celiac trunk stenosis in preoperative computed tomography in patients undergoing esophagectomy, to obtain robust and reproducible measurements that can be used for a definite correlation.

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anastomotic leakarterial calcificationceliac trunk stenosiscomputed tomographyesophageal canceresophagectomyrisk factors

Identifiers

PMID35205764
PMCPMC8870074
OpenAlexW4213104409

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