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ArticleJournal of abdominal wall surgery : JAWS2023

Systematic Review and Guidelines for Management of Scrotal Inguinal Hernias.

Hanh Minh Tran, Ian MacQueen, David Chen, Maarten Simons

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Article in Journal of abdominal wall surgery : JAWS, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
9.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Open vs. robot-assisted preperitoneal inguinal hernia repair. Are they truly clinically different?Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2024
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Hanh Minh TranThe Sydney Hernia Specialists Clinic, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Ian MacQueenLichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic, University College Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
David ChenLichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic, University College Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Maarten SimonsOnze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Hernia Center · USOLVG · NLSydney Hernia Specialists Clinic · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

guidelinesinguinal herniamanagementscrotalsystematic review

Identifiers

PMID38312421
PMCPMC10831669
OpenAlexW4360985444

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Registered trials

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