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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Trochleoplasty Provides Good Outcomes for Recurrent Patellofemoral Dislocations with No Clear Superiority across Different Techniques.

Sharon Si Heng Tan, Gin Way Law, Sunny Sunwoo Kim, Ervin Sethi, Andrew Kean Seng Lim, James Hoi Po Hui

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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 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Age at the time of surgery does not compromise the outcome of deepening trochleoplasty: Results from under and over 30 years old.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2026
    Article
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  4. Patellar instability: current approach.EFORT open reviews · 2025
    Article
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.

Sharon Si Heng TanDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore.
Gin Way LawDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore.
Sunny Sunwoo KimDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore.
Ervin SethiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore.
Andrew Kean Seng LimDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore.
James Hoi Po HuiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-1130-4558

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

patella instabilitypatellofemoral instabilitytrochlear dysplasiatrochleoplasty

Identifiers

PMID38792556
PMCPMC11122057

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