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ArticleActa orthopaedica2026

Letter to the Editor: Re-rupture is not the only failure: tendon elongation and the 6-week nonoperative protocol for Achilles tendon rupture.

Filippo Spiezia, Francesco Oliva, Nicola Maffulli

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Article in Acta orthopaedica, 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Filippo SpieziaDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy; Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Ospedale San Carlo, Potenza, Italy. spieziafilippo@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-3710-7982
Francesco OlivaDepartment of Sports Traumatology, Università Telematica San Raffaele, Rome, Italy.
Nicola MaffulliDepartment of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy; Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Mile End Hospital, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Keele University School of Medicine, Stoke on Trent, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5327-3702

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID42894495
PMCPMC13678454

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