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ReviewWorld journal of gastrointestinal surgery2023

Indocyanine green dye and its application in gastrointestinal surgery: The future is bright green.

Zavier Yongxuan Lim, Swetha Mohan, Sunder Balasubramaniam, Saleem Ahmed, Caroline Ching Hsia Siew, Vishal G Shelat

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Review in World journal of gastrointestinal surgery, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 37 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zavier Yongxuan LimLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 308232, Singapore. zavi0002@e.ntu.edu.sg.
Swetha MohanLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 308232, Singapore.
Sunder BalasubramaniamDepartment of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 308433, Singapore.
Saleem AhmedDepartment of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 308433, Singapore.
Caroline Ching Hsia SiewDepartment of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 308433, Singapore.
Vishal G ShelatDepartment of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 308433, Singapore.
Tan Tock Seng Hospital · SGNanyang Technological University · SG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Indocyanine green (ICG) is a water-soluble fluorescent dye that is minimally toxic and widely used in gastrointestinal surgery. ICG facilitates anatomical identification of structures (

Indexed as

Fluorescence imagingGastrointestinal surgeryIndocyanine green

Identifiers

PMID37901741
PMCPMC10600780
OpenAlexW4386915037

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