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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

A Systematic Review of Disappearing Colorectal Liver Metastases: Resection or No Resection?

Menelaos Papakonstantinou, Antonios Fantakis, Guido Torzilli, Matteo Donadon, Paraskevi Chatzikomnitsa, Dimitrios Giakoustidis, Vasileios N Papadopoulos, Alexandros Giakoustidis

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. [Surgical treatment of metastatic liver cancer: the biological-behavioral basis of "homotherapy for heteropathy"].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Menelaos PapakonstantinouAristotle University Surgery Department, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5030-7009
Antonios FantakisAristotle University Surgery Department, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9188-0821
Guido TorzilliDepartment of Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery & General Surgery, Humanitas Research Hospital, 20089 Rozzano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5798-5021
Matteo DonadonSurgical Oncology Program, University Maggiore Hospital, University of Piemonte Orientale, 28100 Novara, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0296-7648
Paraskevi ChatzikomnitsaAristotle University Surgery Department, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7879-0426
Dimitrios GiakoustidisAristotle University Surgery Department, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6023-4744
Vasileios N PapadopoulosAristotle University Surgery Department, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1009-1685
Alexandros GiakoustidisAristotle University Surgery Department, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3786-4609

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

colorectal liver metastasesdisappearing liver metastasesrecurrenceresection

Identifiers

PMID40004679
PMCPMC11856073

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