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ArticleInternational journal of spine surgery2026

Letter to the Editor Regarding "Epidural Transforaminal Infraneural Infiltration Using Corticosteroids in Lumbar Radiculopathy" by Sampaio Júnior et al.

Jessica Fernandez, Flávia Cordeiro Medeiros, Thayna Caetano Alves Silva, Felipe Maia Domingues, Felipe J J Reis

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Article in International journal of spine surgery, 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

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

5 authors.

Jessica FernandezPostgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Centro Universitário Augusto Motta (UNISUAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Flávia Cordeiro MedeirosBrazilian Scoliosis Research Group-BRGS, Instituto Escoliose Brasil, Campinas-SP, Brazil.
Thayna Caetano Alves SilvaMedical School, Universidade Castelo Branco, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Felipe Maia DominguesMedical School, Universidade Castelo Branco, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Felipe J J ReisPostgraduate Program in Science, Technology, and Innovation in Health, Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil felipe.reis@ifrj.edu.br.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

lumbar disc herniationlumbar painradiculopathytransforaminal epidural injection

Identifiers

PMID42481218
PMCPMC13670977

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