Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39699640›Full record

SynthesisPediatric surgery international2024

Comparative outcomes of video-assisted thoracic surgery versus open thoracic surgery in pediatric pulmonary metastasectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Rachid Eduardo Noleto da Nobrega Oliveira, Clara de Andrade Pontual Peres, Amanda Caroline Oliveira, Paul Onyeji, Frederico Kemczenski

Abstract readSystematic ReviewMeta-AnalysisComparative Study
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Synthesis in Pediatric surgery international, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Pooled it
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Review
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.

Rachid Eduardo Noleto da Nobrega OliveiraDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Street Antenor Duarte Viléla, 1331, Dr. Paulo Prata, Barretos, SP, 14784-400, Brazil. rachidccrr@hotmail.com.
Clara de Andrade Pontual PeresUniversity of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Amanda Caroline OliveiraFederal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Paul OnyejiAll Saints University, Goodwill, Dominica.
Frederico KemczenskiUniversity of Joinville's Region, Joinville, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This meta-analysis aimed to compare the outcomes of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and open thoracotomy in pediatric patients undergoing pulmonary metastasectomy for various malignancies. We systematically searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases for studies comparing VATS and open thoracotomy in pediatric patients. The treatment effects for continuous outcomes were compared using mean differences (MDs), and binary endpoints were evaluated using odds ratios (ORs), with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Heterogeneity was assessed with I

Indexed as

Lung NeoplasmsMetastasectomyThoracic Surgery, Video-AssistedThoracotomyChildHumansLength of StayPneumonectomyTreatment OutcomeMetastasectomyThoracoscopyVATS

Identifiers

PMID39699640

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.