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ReviewVirchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology2013

Thomas Hodgkin: the "man" and "his disease": humani nihil a se alienum putabit (nothing human was foreign to him).

Stephen A Geller, Clive R Taylor

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Review in Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stephen A GellerCedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Clive R Taylor
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · USUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1865) was one of the leading physicians and scientists of the nineteenth century. A renowned diagnostician, he carried out pioneering work in public health, but devoted the greater part of his career to the study of pathology. His contributions transcend many fields, medical and non-medical, but his most important legacy to medical science was the recognition of the disease that bears his name. The diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease was difficult pending recognition of the "peculiar giant cells" that came to characterize the diagnosis. With identification of the Reed-Sternberg cell, it might have been expected that debate concerning the nature of Hodgkin's disease would be stilled. History proved to the contrary. A fierce controversy ignited with respect to the cellular origin of the Reed-Sternberg cell and the relationship, if any, of Hodgkin's disease to other malignant processes arising in the "absorbent glands and spleen." For a century, arguments ebbed and flowed, reflective of individual opinions and changing concepts, yielding ultimately to new methods for examining and identifying cells.

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EnglandHistory, 19th CenturyHodgkin DiseasePathologyReed-Sternberg Cells

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PMID23887583
OpenAlexW2051742490

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