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ArticleBrain sciences2025

The Effects of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy Versus Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt on Neuropsychological and Motor Performance in Patients with Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus-ENVENTOR-iNPH: Study Protocol.

Gianluca Scalia, Nicola Alberio, Pietro Trombatore, Mariangela Panebianco, Grazia Razza, Gianluca Galvano, Giovanni Federico Nicoletti, Francesca Graziano

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Article in Brain sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

1 citing paper 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

8 authors.

Gianluca ScaliaUnit of Neurosurgery, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Garibaldi Hospital, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9465-2506
Nicola AlberioDepartment of Neurosurgery, Cannizzaro Hospital, 95124 Catania, Italy.
Pietro TrombatoreDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, Garibaldi Hospital, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0749-0084
Mariangela PanebiancoUnit of Neurology, Garibaldi Hospital, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8956-5486
Grazia RazzaDepartment of Mental Health, ASP Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9896-143X
Gianluca GalvanoDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, Garibaldi Hospital, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2570-5536
Giovanni Federico NicolettiUnit of Neurosurgery, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Garibaldi Hospital, 95124 Catania, Italy.
Francesca GrazianoUnit of Neurosurgery, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Garibaldi Hospital, 95124 Catania, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

endoscopic third ventriculostomyidiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalusnTMSrandomized controlled trialventriculoperitoneal shunt

Identifiers

PMID40426679
PMCPMC12109862

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