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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2025

Which B2 Fractures Can Be Treated with ORIF? Validation of the "Beyond the Vancouver Classification".

Karl Stoffel, Martin Clauss, Marlene Mauch

Abstract readValidation Study
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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 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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3citing papers in PubMed
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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.

  1. Review
  2. Internal fixation versus revision arthroplasty for Vancouver B2-B3 fractures: mortality and functional outcomes in frail patients. Insights from the PIPPAS study of 485 patients.Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology : official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Karl StoffelDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-4431-3626
Martin ClaussDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1598-2209
Marlene MauchDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0007-9576-1222

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Femoral FracturesFracture Fixation, InternalOpen Fracture ReductionAgedAged, 80 and overCohort StudiesFemaleHumansMaleRetrospective StudiesTreatment Outcomearthroplastyfemoral fracturesfracture fixationhip fracturesloose stemORIFperiprosthetic fracturesVancouver classification

Identifiers

PMID40731768
PMCPMC12300262

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