Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42075497›Full record

ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2026

Prophylactic Supraclavicular Lymphadenectomy Does Not Improve Prognosis in Upper and Middle Thoracic Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Retrospective Single-Center Study.

Tomotake Ariyoshi, Koji Otsuka, Masahiro Kohmoto, Akira Saito, Kentaro Motegi, Takeshi Yamashita, Satoru Goto, Masahiko Murakami, Takeshi Aoki

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

9 authors.

Tomotake AriyoshiDivision of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Showa Medical University, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan.
Koji OtsukaDigestive Disease Center, Showa Medical University Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo 135-8577, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-9625-785X
Masahiro KohmotoDivision of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Showa Medical University, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan.
Akira SaitoDivision of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Showa Medical University, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan.
Kentaro MotegiDivision of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Showa Medical University, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan.
Takeshi YamashitaDivision of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Showa Medical University, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8489-5985
Satoru GotoDivision of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Showa Medical University, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan.
Masahiko MurakamiEsophageal Cancer Center, Showa Medical University Hospital, Tokyo 142-8666, Japan.
Takeshi AokiDivision of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Showa Medical University, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Esophageal NeoplasmsEsophageal Squamous Cell CarcinomaLymph Node ExcisionAgedEsophagectomyFemaleHumansLymphatic MetastasisMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalPrognosisPropensity ScoreRetrospective Studiesesophagectomyminimally invasive surgerysquamous cell carcinomasupraclavicular lymph node dissectionupper or middle thoracic esophageal cancer

Identifiers

PMID42075497
PMCPMC13117364

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.