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Systematic review

Hello,

I am currentlying completing a systematic review. I understand that the whole point of them is to have strict search criteria from which they can be repeatable.
My searches turned up 5 papers which match the criteria. Within these 5 papers, many of them reference an extra 2 papers which were not identified within the search criteria. I'll call the papers X and Y for the sake of it. X and Y happen to be really useful, contain lots of data and other than not being on the search engines used, match the inclusion criteria!
Is there anyway that i can add X and Y to my pool of identified papers, or am i just stuck. I dont want to expand my search criteria and risk discovering an extra 10 papers to write about (i admit this systematic review is sounding pretty biased....).

Thanks!
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