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ReviewBiomedicines2024

Predictors of Successful Testicular Sperm Extraction: A New Era for Men with Non-Obstructive Azoospermia.

Aris Kaltsas, Sofoklis Stavros, Zisis Kratiras, Athanasios Zikopoulos, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Anastasios Potiris, Fotios Dimitriadis, Nikolaos Sofikitis, Michael Chrisofos, Athanasios Zachariou

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Review in Biomedicines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

10 authors.

Aris KaltsasThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4651-312X
Sofoklis StavrosThird Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Zisis KratirasThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7281-3308
Athanasios ZikopoulosDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro TR1 3LJ, UK.
Nikolaos MachairiotisThird Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2260-9709
Anastasios PotirisThird Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7716-1521
Fotios DimitriadisDepartment of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-1198-9144
Nikolaos SofikitisLaboratory of Spermatology, Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.
Michael ChrisofosThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-1688-005X
Athanasios ZachariouLaboratory of Spermatology, Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-5287-4450

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

anti-Müllerian hormoneartificial intelligencebiomarkersmale infertilitymicroRNAsmolecular diagnosticsnon-obstructive azoospermiaseminal plasmasperm retrieval predictorstesticular sperm extraction

Identifiers

PMID39767586
PMCPMC11726830

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Registered trials

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