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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

Use of External Fixator Device for Mandible Fracture Related to War Injury: A Systematic Review.

Franck Masumbuko, Gregory Reychler, Olivier Cornu, Caroline Huart, Jean Cyr Yombi, Raphael Olszewski

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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 2 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

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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Franck MasumbukoUnit of Maxillofacial and Reconstructive Surgery, Surgery Department, Hôpital Provincial Général de Référence de Bukavu, Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu 285, Democratic Republic of the Congo.ORCID 0009-0004-0601-7089
Gregory ReychlerService de Kinésithérapie et Ergothérapie, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 1200 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-7674-1150
Olivier CornuDivision of Orthopedics and Musculoskeletal Trauma, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 1200 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-3033-7408
Caroline HuartDivision of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT), Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
Jean Cyr YombiDivision of Internal Medicine and Infectious diseases, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
Raphael OlszewskiOral and Maxillofacial Surgery Lab (OMFS Lab), Neuro Musculo Skeletal Lab (NMSK), Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 1200 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2211-7731

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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external fixatormandibular fracturewar injuries

Identifiers

PMID40364093
PMCPMC12072882

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