Meta-analyses of prevalence studies reporting rare anatomic variants are prone to selective reporting of non-null, confirmatory results, thus resulting in publication bias.
Keywords: anatomic variant Doi plot LFK index meta-analysis prevalence study selective reporting publication bias.
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