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ArticleAnnals of Saudi medicine

Mimicking pancreatic malignancy: a systemic sarcoidosis.

Li-Na Zhang, Qing-Liang Xue, Jian-Xin Wang

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Article in Annals of Saudi medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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

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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Li-Na Zhang
Qing-Liang Xue
Jian-Xin WangProf. Jian-Xin Wang, The Respiratory Diseases Department,, Chinese PLA General Hospital,, 28 Fuxing Rd. 100853, Beijing, China, jianxinwang301@163.com.
Chinese PLA General Hospital · CNAir Force General Hospital PLA · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systemic sarcoidosis that initially presents as a pancreatic mass has rarely been reported. A 47-year-old man presented with idiopathic epigastric abdominal pain. Abdominal CT showed multiple enlarged lymph nodes in the retroperitoneal area and a suspected tumor mass in the pancreatic head region. The preliminary diagnosis was celiac metastasis of a pancreatic malignancy. The definitive diagnosis was systemic sarcoidosis, which was supported by granulomas on histology, clinical radiographic findings, and clinical response to steroids. A review of published reports on sarcoidosis presenting initially as a pancreatic or celiac mass from the Chinese biomedical database (1978-2010) is included.

Indexed as

Abdominal PainDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansMaleMiddle AgedPancreatic DiseasesPancreatic NeoplasmsSarcoidosis

Identifiers

PMID24658558
PMCPMC6074940
OpenAlexW2436912409

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