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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

Management of Retained Epidural Catheter Fragments: A Narrative Review of Individual Patient Data.

Felix Corr, Yasser F Almealawy, Silvio Heinig, Linda Bättig, Erik Schulz, Nader Hejrati, Lorenzo Bertulli, Stephan Heisinger, Oliver Bozinov, Martin N Stienen and 1 more

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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 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

11 authors.

Felix CorrDepartment of Neurosurgery & Interdisciplinary Spine Center, HOCH Health Ostschweiz, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacher Strasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5365-7511
Yasser F AlmealawyFaculty of Medicine, University of Kufa, Kufa P.O. Box 21, Iraq.ORCID 0009-0004-7976-6654
Silvio HeinigDepartment of Neurosurgery & Interdisciplinary Spine Center, HOCH Health Ostschweiz, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacher Strasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Linda BättigDepartment of Neurosurgery & Interdisciplinary Spine Center, HOCH Health Ostschweiz, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacher Strasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Erik SchulzDepartment of Neurosurgery & Interdisciplinary Spine Center, HOCH Health Ostschweiz, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacher Strasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Nader HejratiDepartment of Neurosurgery & Interdisciplinary Spine Center, HOCH Health Ostschweiz, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacher Strasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8583-9849
Lorenzo BertulliDepartment of Neurosurgery & Interdisciplinary Spine Center, HOCH Health Ostschweiz, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacher Strasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4620-408X
Stephan HeisingerDepartment of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Oliver BozinovDepartment of Neurosurgery & Interdisciplinary Spine Center, HOCH Health Ostschweiz, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacher Strasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Martin N StienenDepartment of Neurosurgery & Interdisciplinary Spine Center, HOCH Health Ostschweiz, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacher Strasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Stefan MotovDepartment of Neurosurgery & Interdisciplinary Spine Center, HOCH Health Ostschweiz, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacher Strasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1950-9168

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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breakageepidural anesthesiaepidural catheterfragmentspinal anesthesia

Identifiers

PMID40566010
PMCPMC12193838

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