Analyzing research trends and developments in osseointegration in patients with extremity amputations: Systematic bibliometric analysis and research recommendations.
Raphael-Kyrillos M Saleib, Begüm Pekbay, Michiel H J Verhofstad and 3 others
PMID 39514709WHAT IT FOUND
Research on bone-anchored prostheses for limb amputations has grown, with most work on lower-extremity osseointegration, rehabilitation, quality of life, complications, and implant treatment.
It maps topics and gaps, not patient outcomes.
Key findings
01The included articles span 1993 to 2023, with an annual growth rate of 10.3%, and 112 articles were included for analysis.
02Author keywords were most frequent for osseointegration (58), amputation (32), and transfemoral amputation (25), while KeyWords Plus most frequent were rehabilitation (40), quality of life (37), and transfemoral amputation (37).
03Research collaborations were mainly among high-income countries, and direct comparative studies on one-stage versus two-stage osseointegration surgery are lacking.
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What it does not show
This is a bibliometric review, so it counts publications and citations, not patient outcomes. The search used database metadata, so it may have missed paper quality, overlapping patient populations, or studies not indexed. It focused on clinical articles and excluded animal or fundamental studies, so laboratory work may be underrepresented. Citation counts and metadata can change after publication. Terminology and naming differences may bias keyword and author rankings. No authors or subject experts were contacted, and unindexed journals were not browsed.
Declared interests
No financial support was received, and the authors disclosed no potential conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that bone-anchored prostheses improve walking, quality of life, or complications. It maps publication trends, citation counts, and research gaps, not patient outcomes.
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