Does deep cerebral venous engorgement contribute to non-hydrocephalic pineal cysts becoming symptomatic? Some missing links.

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.

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.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Surgery for pineal cysts with symptoms in the absence of hydrocephalus: a prospective cohort study.EClinicalMedicine · 2025
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2. Microsurgical pineal cyst fenestration: A safe and effective treatment strategy in patients with symptomatic pineal cyst syndrome.Acta neurochirurgica · 2025
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3. International web-based survey of patients with non-hydrocephalic symptomatic pineal cysts.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024
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Corrections and comments

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  Physiological alterations of pineal recess crowding in symptomatic non-hydrocephalic pineal cysts.2023

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

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