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ReviewPediatric radiology2017

Technical aspects of mediastinal ultrasound for pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis.

Kara-Lee Pool, Charlotte C Heuvelings, Sabine Bélard, Martin P Grobusch, Heather J Zar, Dorothy Bulas, Brian Garra, Savvas Andronikou

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Review in Pediatric radiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.2field-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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Chest Imaging for Pulmonary TB-An Update.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  14. Imaging in Pediatric Extra-Pulmonary Tuberculosis.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2019
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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

8 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.

Kara-Lee PoolDepartment of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, UCLA Medical Center, 757 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90095-7437, USA. kpool@mednet.ucla.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0129-3127
Charlotte C HeuvelingsDepartment of Pediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and MRC Unit on Child & Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Sabine BélardDepartment of Pediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and MRC Unit on Child & Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Martin P GrobuschCenter of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Heather J ZarDepartment of Pediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and MRC Unit on Child & Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Dorothy BulasDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology, Children's National Health System, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Brian GarraDepartment of Radiology Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Savvas AndronikouDepartment of Pediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and MRC Unit on Child & Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
University of Cape Town · ZAAmsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam · NLCenter for Devices and Radiological Health · USChildren's National · USUCLA Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diagnosing childhood pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) may be challenging due to difficulties in obtaining adequate sputum samples, paucibacillary disease and the low sensitivity of diagnostic tests. Chest radiography is an important diagnostic tool for pulmonary TB, but it involves radiation exposure, requires facilities that can house X-ray equipment and has poor inter-reader agreement. The cardinal radiologic finding of mediastinal lymphadenopathy may be detected using mediastinal ultrasound (US). We describe technical aspects of performing mediastinal US, which may assist diagnosis of paediatric pulmonary TB.

Indexed as

Anatomic LandmarksChildDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansMediastinal DiseasesTuberculosis, Lymph NodeTuberculosis, PulmonaryUltrasonographyChestChildrenLungsLymph nodesMediastinumTuberculosisUltrasound

Identifiers

PMID28852808
OpenAlexW2750602217

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