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ArticleScientific reports2017

Differentiating malignant from benign thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology by

A Campennì, M Siracusa, R M Ruggeri, R Laudicella, S A Pignata, S Baldari, L Giovanella

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In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

A CampennìDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-functional Imaging, Nuclear Medicine Unit, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
M SiracusaDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-functional Imaging, Nuclear Medicine Unit, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
R M RuggeriDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Unit of Endocrinology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
R LaudicellaDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-functional Imaging, Nuclear Medicine Unit, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
S A PignataDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-functional Imaging, Nuclear Medicine Unit, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
S BaldariDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-functional Imaging, Nuclear Medicine Unit, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
L GiovanellaDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and Thyroid Centre, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland. luca.giovanella@eoc.ch.
University of Messina · ITInstitute of Oncology Research · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative

Indexed as

AdultAgedAged, 80 and overCytodiagnosisDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleHumansMiddle AgedProspective StudiesRadionuclide ImagingRadiopharmaceuticalsSensitivity and SpecificityTechnetium Tc 99m SestamibiThyroidectomyThyroid NeoplasmsThyroid NoduleRadiopharmaceuticalsTechnetium Tc 99m Sestamibi

Identifiers

PMID28733644
PMCPMC5522471
OpenAlexW2736125729

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