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ArticleWorld journal of clinical oncology2024

Management of lateral pelvic lymph nodes in rectal cancer: Is it time to reach an Agreement?

Sigfredo E Romero-Zoghbi, Fernando López-Campos, Felipe Couñago

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Article in World journal of clinical oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Total neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer in Spain: results from a national patterns-of-care survey by the SEOR-GI Group.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sigfredo E Romero-ZoghbiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, GenesisCare, Talavera de la Reina 45600, Toledo, Spain.
Fernando López-CamposDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Hospital Universitario Ramón Y Cajal, Madrid 28034, Spain.
Felipe CouñagoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, GenesisCare - Hospital Universitario Vithas Madrid La Milagrosa, Madrid 28010, Spain. felipe.counago@genesiscare.es.
Hospital Universitario La Paz · ESHospital General Nuestra Señora del Prado · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

ChemoradiotherapyLateral pelvic lymph node metastasesPelvic lymph node dissectionProphylactic management of the lateral pelvic nodesRectal cancerSelective management of the lateral pelvic nodesTotal mesorectal excisionTotal neoadjuvant therapy

Identifiers

PMID38689627
PMCPMC11056856
OpenAlexW4395005739

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Registered trials

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