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ArticleAesthetic plastic surgery2023

Letter on "An Original Approach to Massive Weight Loss Deformities in the Lower Thigh: A Retrospective Assessment of Results and Patients".

Roberto Cuomo, Gorizio Pieretti, Feliciano Ciccarelli

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Article in Aesthetic plastic surgery, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Roberto CuomoPlastic Surgery Unit, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Siena, Siena, Italy. robertocuomo@outlook.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8396-095X
Gorizio PierettiPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, Multidisciplinary Department of Medical-Surgical and Dental Specialties, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy.
Feliciano CiccarelliDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Villa dei Fiori Hospital, Acerra, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Authors comment on the paper "An Original Approach to Massive Weight Loss Deformities in the Lower Thigh: A Retrospective Assessment of Results and Patients" written by Dr. Pierfranco Simone et al. Although the authors present excellent results on medial tight lift, we express some considerations about the proposed follow-up and hope in new research on this topic by Dr. Simone et al. using his interesting technique.Level of Evidence V This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .

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