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ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2016

A crucial first randomized controlled trial of thymectomy in non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis.

Pierre R Bourque, Jodi Warman Chardon

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Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Randomized trial of thymectomy in myasthenia gravis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pierre R BourqueDivision of Neurology, Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada;; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada;; The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
Jodi Warman ChardonDivision of Neurology, Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada;; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada;; The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada;; Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada.
University of Ottawa · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID27867633
PMCPMC5107546
OpenAlexW2544389851

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