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Trial reportThorax2018

Disagreement of diameter and volume measurements for pulmonary nodule size estimation in CT lung cancer screening.

Marjolein A Heuvelmans, Joan E Walter, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, Peter M A van Ooijen, Geertruida H De Bock, Harry J de Koning, Matthijs Oudkerk

Abstract readLetterMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Thorax, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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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

48 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Marjolein A HeuvelmansCenter for Medical Imaging - North East Netherlands, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Joan E WalterCenter for Medical Imaging - North East Netherlands, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Rozemarijn VliegenthartCenter for Medical Imaging - North East Netherlands, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Peter M A van OoijenCenter for Medical Imaging - North East Netherlands, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Geertruida H De BockDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Harry J de KoningDepartment of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Matthijs OudkerkCenter for Medical Imaging - North East Netherlands, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We studied 2240 indeterminate solid nodules (volume 50-500mm TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: Pre-results, ISRCTN63545820.

Indexed as

Mass ScreeningAdultAgedBelgiumEarly Detection of CancerFemaleHumansLung NeoplasmsMaleMiddle AgedMultiple Pulmonary NodulesNetherlandsRadiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-AssistedSolitary Pulmonary NoduleTomography, X-Ray Computedimaging/CT MRI etclung cancer

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