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ArticleClinical cases in mineral and bone metabolism : the official journal of the Italian Society of Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism, and Skeletal Diseases2014

Strontium ranelate improves delayed healing of osteolytic lesions of the jaw in a man with chronic osteomyelitis. Case report.

Konstantinos D Stathopoulos, Efthymia Giannitsioti, Archondoula N Fragkou, Aristides B Zoubos, Panagiotis J Papaggelopoulos, Grigoris Skarantavos

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Article in Clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolism : the official journal of the Italian Society of Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism, and Skeletal Diseases, 2014. 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
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% 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, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Strontium ranelate stimulates trabecular bone formation in a rat tibial bone defect healing process.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Konstantinos D StathopoulosBone Metabolic Unit, 1 Department of Orthopedics, University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Efthymia Giannitsioti4 Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" University General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Archondoula N FragkouClinic of Internal Medicine, "Elpis" General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Aristides B ZoubosBone Metabolic Unit, 1 Department of Orthopedics, University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Panagiotis J PapaggelopoulosBone Metabolic Unit, 1 Department of Orthopedics, University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Grigoris SkarantavosBone Metabolic Unit, 1 Department of Orthopedics, University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
University General Hospital Attikon · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the case of a man with osteolytic lesions of the right mandible due to chronic osteomyelitis, with delayed healing after six months of antibiotic therapy. The patient received off-label therapy with strontium ranelate, with significant radiological improvement of his condition after 3 months.

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bone healingjawosteomyelitisstrontium ranelate

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PMID25002884
PMCPMC4064446
OpenAlexW2316977515

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