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ArticleCancers2025

Survival and Functional Outcomes Following Surgical Resection of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors: A Series of 253 Patients over 22 Years.

Abdel-Hameed Al-Mistarehi, Khaled J Zaitoun, Sania Javed, Yuanxuan Xia, Andrew Hersh, Abdul Karim Ghaith, Carly Weber-Levine, Kelly Jiang, Majid Khan, Benjamin Mendelson and 7 more

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Article in Cancers, 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

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Minimally invasive approaches to intramedullary spinal cord tumors: a systematic review of techniques and outcomes.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
    Review
  3. Clinical predictors of overall survival in pediatric patients with intramedullary spinal tumors: an analysis of the SEER database.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
    Article
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

17 authors.

Abdel-Hameed Al-MistarehiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21281, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4713-8536
Khaled J ZaitounFaculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan.
Sania JavedDepartment of Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0001-2154-5216
Yuanxuan XiaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21281, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6152-8392
Andrew HershDepartment of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21281, USA.
Abdul Karim GhaithDepartment of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21281, USA.
Carly Weber-LevineDepartment of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21281, USA.
Kelly JiangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21281, USA.
Majid KhanDepartment of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21281, USA.
Benjamin MendelsonSchool of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-4971-295X
Noa KsabiDepartment of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-5611-9080
Daniel M SciubbaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7604-434X
Ziya L GokaslanDepartment of Neurosurgery, Warren Alpert Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA.
George I JalloDepartment of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21281, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9607-6867
Jean-Paul WolinskyDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Nicholas TheodoreDepartment of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21281, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5355-2683
Daniel LubelskiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21281, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9403-9509

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

astrocytomaependymomahemangioblastomaIMSCTintramedullary spinal cord tumorslong-term outcomes

Identifiers

PMID40647411
PMCPMC12248634

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