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ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2026

Reconsidering the role of esophagectomy in selected patients with stage IV esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Shuhei Komatsu, Tomoki Konishi, Hirotaka Konishi, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Eigo Otsuji, Atsushi Shiozaki

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Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Shuhei KomatsuDivision of Digestive Surgery (Esophageal and Gastric Surgery Division), Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6074-7614
Tomoki KonishiDepartment of Digestive Surgery (Esophageal and Gastric Surgery Division), Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Hirotaka KonishiDivision of Digestive Surgery (Esophageal and Gastric Surgery Division), Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Hitoshi FujiwaraDivision of Digestive Surgery (Esophageal and Gastric Surgery Division), Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Eigo OtsujiDepartment of Digestive Surgery (Esophageal and Gastric Surgery Division), Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Atsushi ShiozakiDivision of Digestive Surgery (Esophageal and Gastric Surgery Division), Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC)esophagectomymultidisciplinary treatmentoligometastatic diseasestage IV disease

Identifiers

PMID42182704
PMCPMC13190053

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