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ReviewDer Orthopade2016

[Approach to joint effusion].

M Henniger, S Rehart

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Review in Der Orthopade, 2016. 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
–field-weighted citation impact, top 87% 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.

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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 1 institution in 1 country.

M HennigerKlinik für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie, Agaplesion Frankfurter Diakonie Kliniken gGmbH, Agaplesion Markus Krankenhaus, Akademisches Lehr-KH der Goethe-Universität, Wilhelm-Epstein-Str. 4, 60431, Frankfurt, Deutschland. Martina.Henniger@fdk.info.
S RehartKlinik für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie, Agaplesion Frankfurter Diakonie Kliniken gGmbH, Agaplesion Markus Krankenhaus, Akademisches Lehr-KH der Goethe-Universität, Wilhelm-Epstein-Str. 4, 60431, Frankfurt, Deutschland.
Agaplesion Markus Hospital · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fundamental components of the differential diagnostics of joint effusions are the patient history and clinical examination. In the case of unclear findings, arthrosonography can provide information for the distinction between intra-articular and extra-articular pathologies. In atraumatic joint effusions inflammatory parameters in blood are determined in order to differentiate between systemic inflammatory and local inflammatory joint effusions. In the case of normal values further diagnostics are carried out using imaging. With elevated inflammatory parameters the main differential diagnoses are gouty arthritis, autoimmune joint processes and septic arthritis. When in doubt, a joint aspiration and synovial fluid analysis should be performed to rule out septic arthritis or if necessary confirmation of gouty arthritis.

Indexed as

ArthritisArthrographyDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansHydrarthrosisMedical History TakingPhysical ExaminationSynovial FluidUltrasonographyArthrosonographyGouty arthritisInflammation parametersRheumatic diseasesSeptic arthritis

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PMID27562127
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