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ArticleGlobal spine journal2026

Response to Letter to the Editor: Comment on "Psychometric Performance of Clinician- and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Surgically Treated Thoracic Myelopathy: A Multicenter Prospective Study".

So Kato, Naohiro Kawamura, Yu Yamato, Yoichi Iizuka, Tomoyuki Takigawa, Michio Hongo, Masanari Takami, Shinji Takahashi, Jun Takahashi, Mitsuru Fukui and 8 more

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Article in Global spine journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

So KatoDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0835-2724
Naohiro KawamuraClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Yu YamatoClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-4701-8211
Yoichi IizukaClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Tomoyuki TakigawaClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3936-3071
Michio HongoClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Masanari TakamiClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7586-3754
Shinji TakahashiClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6906-5406
Jun TakahashiClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Mitsuru FukuiClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Miho SekiguchiClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Shota IkegamiClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Hiroshi HashizumeClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Hirotaka ChikudaClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Kei WatanabeClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Tsukasa KanchikuClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Masahiro KanayamaClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Yasuo ItoClinical Outcome Committee, The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Abstract

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PMID42630135
PMCPMC13499895

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