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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2025

Comparing Clinical Outcomes of Microdiscectomy, Interspinous Device Implantation, and Full-Endoscopic Discectomy for Simple Lumbar Disc Herniation.

Chien-Ching Lee, Ruey-Mo Lin, Wei-Sheng Juan, Hao-Yu Chuang, Hung-Lin Lin, Cheng-Hsin Cheng, Chun-Hsu Yao

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Article 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 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

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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

7 authors.

Chien-Ching LeeDepartment of Anesthesia, An Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan 70965, Taiwan.
Ruey-Mo LinDepartment of Orthopedics, An Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.
Wei-Sheng JuanDepartment of Neurosurgery, An Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan 70965, Taiwan.
Hao-Yu ChuangDepartment of Neurosurgery, An Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan 70965, Taiwan.
Hung-Lin LinDepartment of Neurosurgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung 40447, Taiwan.
Cheng-Hsin ChengDepartment of Neurosurgery, An Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan 70965, Taiwan.
Chun-Hsu YaoDepartment of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Science, China Medical University, Tainan 70965, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-0815-2303

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

degenerative disc diseasediscectomy endoscopicinterspinous process deviceslumbar disc herniationmicrodiscectomypercutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy

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PMID40142733
PMCPMC11942998

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