Bo Z. et al., 2025: Comment on "CT-based radiomics for predicting stone-free rate after ESWL: a systematic review and meta-analysis".

Ze Bo, Maosen Liu, Ruihang Luo, Hongyi Lai, Wei Zhong, Mingshan Liu
World J Urol. 2025 Oct 24;43(1):625. doi: 10.1007/s00345-025-06028-y

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Comment Peter Alken

This thoughtful and interesting comment by non-urological Medical specialist’s (3 of 5) for pulmonary diseases !!!? refers to a paper written by 8 Urologists on a radiological topic (1) : - ).
It illustrates the problem that many systemic reviews and meta-analyses lead a life of their own, independent of the clinical problems they address. They are l'art pour l'art, of little direct practical use and, at best, lead to repetition. The fundamental problem is the diversity of the works analysed.
This will only change with a change and improvement of the primary publications.

1 Talyshinskii, A., Ali, S., Gauhar, V. et al. CT-based radiomics for predicting stone-free rate after ESWL: a systematic review and meta-analysis. World J Urol 43, 566 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-025-05933-6

Peter Alken