Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37275062›Full record

ArticleIndian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India2023

Is Laser Better than Cold Steel (Dissection and Snare) for Tonsillectomy?

Vikrant S Ghiyali, Ravinder S Minhas, Ramesh K Azad, Jagdeep S Thakur

Open access · greenAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vikrant S GhiyaliDept of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (ENT), Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, HP 171001 India.
Ravinder S MinhasDept of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (ENT), Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, HP 171001 India.
Ramesh K AzadDept of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (ENT), Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, HP 171001 India.
Jagdeep S ThakurDept of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (ENT), Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, HP 171001 India.ORCID 0000-0003-2311-0571
Indira Gandhi Medical College · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo analyse the surgical outcome of CO MATERIALS AND

methodsThis prospective, non-randomised, single blind study was conducted in 25 cases suffering with recurrent tonsillitis. The left tonsillectomy was performed with CO

resultsCO

conclusionCO

Indexed as

CO2 laserLasersTonsilTonsillectomyTonsillectomy methods

Identifiers

PMID37275062
PMCPMC10235227
OpenAlexW4308426783

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.