A case of lymphoma simulating primary sternal tumour.

Atalay Sahin, Fatih Meteroglu, Sevval Eren, Ayse Nur Keles

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Article in APSP journal of case reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

Imaging in Sternal Tumours: A Pictorial Review.Polish journal of radiology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Atalay SahinDicle University Hospital, Thoracic Surgery, Diyarbakir, Turkey.

Fatih MeterogluDicle University Hospital, Thoracic Surgery, Diyarbakir, Turkey.

Sevval ErenMedeniyet University, Medical School, Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey.

Ayse Nur KelesDicle University Hospital, Pathology, Diyarbakir,Turkey.

Dicle University · TRIstanbul Medeniyet University · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Any mass on the chest wall may not always be the primary local pathology. A case of lymphoma with an aggressive course may involve the sternum through local invasion and can mimic a chest wall tumour. A 15-year-old boy with mediastinal lymphoma presented with a sternal mass. Partial sternectomy with replacement by methyl methacrylate prosthesis was performed.

Indexed as

LymphomaProsthesisSternum

Identifiers

PMID24834383

PMCPMC4005089

OpenAlexW1842977640

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