Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18633441›Full record

ArticleThe Journal of investigative dermatology2009

MC polyomavirus is frequently present in Merkel cell carcinoma of European patients.

Jürgen C Becker, Roland Houben, Selma Ugurel, Uwe Trefzer, Claudia Pföhler, David Schrama

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Article in The Journal of investigative dermatology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 128 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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128citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
19.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

128 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 348 citations in OpenAlex.

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68 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jürgen C Becker
Roland Houben
Selma Ugurel
Uwe Trefzer
Claudia Pföhler
David Schrama
University of Würzburg · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DESaarland University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AgedAged, 80 and overCarcinoma, Merkel CellDNA, ViralEuropeFemaleHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm MetastasisPolyomavirusReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSkin NeoplasmsDNA, ViralImmunosuppressive Agents

Identifiers

PMID18633441
OpenAlexW1973704821

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.