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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Rate of Free Flap Failure and Return to the Operating Room in Lower Limb Reconstruction: A Systematic Review.

Pietro Luciano Serra, Filippo Boriani, Umraz Khan, Matteo Atzeni, Andrea Figus

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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 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

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  2. Distal bipedicled "supra cross leg" flap: a salvage option for complex lower limb defects.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 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

5 authors.

Pietro Luciano SerraPlastic Surgery Unit, Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari University Hospital Trust, 07100 Sassari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2122-6493
Filippo BorianiPlastic Surgery and Microsurgery Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University Hospital "Duilio Casula", University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7739-9801
Umraz KhanPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, North Bristol NHS Trust, Southmead Hospital, Southmead Road, London BS10 5NB, UK.
Matteo AtzeniPlastic Surgery and Microsurgery Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University Hospital "Duilio Casula", University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy.
Andrea FigusPlastic Surgery and Microsurgery Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University Hospital "Duilio Casula", University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

failure ratefree flaplower limbreconstructionreturn to the operating room

Identifiers

PMID39124562
PMCPMC11313376

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