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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Efficacy and Safety of the Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion (XLIF) Technique in Spine Surgery: Meta-Analysis of 1409 Patients.

Pablo Palacios, Isabel Palacios, Ana Palacios, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, Gonzalo Mariscal, Alejandro Lorente

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. Lateral Transpsoas Interbody Fusion.International journal of spine surgery · 2025
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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.

Pablo PalaciosDepartment of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital HM Sanchinarro, 28050 Madrid, Spain.
Isabel PalaciosDepartment of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital HM Sanchinarro, 28050 Madrid, Spain.
Ana PalaciosDepartment of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital HM Sanchinarro, 28050 Madrid, Spain.
Juan Carlos GutiérrezDepartment of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital HM Sanchinarro, 28050 Madrid, Spain.
Gonzalo MariscalInstitute for Research on Musculoskeletal Disorders, Valencia Catholic University, 46001 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5166-198X
Alejandro LorenteDepartment of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital Ramón y Cajal, 28034 Madrid, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

extreme lateral interbody fusionmeta-analysisminimally invasivespine surgeryXLIF

Identifiers

PMID38398273
PMCPMC10889658

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