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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2025

The Feasibility and Safety of Robot-Assisted Vaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (RA-vNOTES) for Gynecologic Disease: 298-Case Series.

Qiannan Yang, Daniel Y Lovell, Yingchun Ma, Chunhua Zhang, Xiaoming Guan

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 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

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

  1. Indocyanine green for intraoperative ureteral identification in gynecologic surgery: A preliminary systematic review of feasibility, safety, and surgical outcomes.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026
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  4. A Review of Robotic vNOTES Surgery: Current Applications, Advantages, and Future Directions.Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 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.

Qiannan YangDivision of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, 6651 Main St., 10th Floor, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Daniel Y LovellDivision of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, 6651 Main St., 10th Floor, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4114-023X
Yingchun MaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, No.16766 Jingshi Road, Jinan 250014, China.
Chunhua ZhangDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No. 121 Jiangjiayuan, Nanjing 210011, China.
Xiaoming GuanDivision of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, 6651 Main St., 10th Floor, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2744-4512

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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feasibilitygynecologic diseaserobotic surgeryrobotic vNOTES

Identifiers

PMID40218018
PMCPMC11988908

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