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ArticleEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging2018

Imaging α

Gary J R Cook, Gurdip K Azad, Benjamin P Taylor, Eugene Lee, Matthew S Morrison, Simon Hughes, Stephen Morris, Sarah Rudman, Simon Chowdhury, Vicky Goh

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In one paragraph

Article in European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Imaging of Bone Metastases in Breast Cancer.Seminars in nuclear medicine · 2022
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  8. Functional and Hybrid Imaging of Bone Metastases.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2018
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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

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gary J R CookCancer Imaging Department, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, UK. gary.cook@kcl.ac.uk.
Gurdip K AzadCancer Imaging Department, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
Benjamin P TaylorUro-oncology Department, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
Eugene LeeNuclear Medicine Department, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
Matthew S MorrisonGE Healthcare, Medical Diagnostics, The Grove Centre, Amersham, UK.
Simon HughesUro-oncology Department, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
Stephen MorrisUro-oncology Department, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
Sarah RudmanUro-oncology Department, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
Simon ChowdhuryUro-oncology Department, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
Vicky GohCancer Imaging Department, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
St Thomas' Hospital · GBKing's College London · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 16463Cancer Research UK C1519/A16463Prostate Cancer UK PA12-04Wellcome Trust WT203148/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeOsteoclast activity is an important factor in the pathogenesis of skeletal metastases and is a potential therapeutic target. This study aimed to determine if selective uptake of

methodsThe study group comprised 17 men with bone-predominant metastatic PCa who underwent whole-body planar and single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) imaging with

resultsBefore treatment, metastases showed specific

conclusions

Indexed as

Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-PhotonAgedBone NeoplasmsHumansIntegrin alphaVbeta3MaleRadionuclide ImagingRadiopharmaceuticalsTomography, X-Ray ComputedIntegrin alphaVbeta3Radiopharmaceuticals99mTc-MaraciclatideBone metastasesOsteoclastProstate cancer

Identifiers

PMID29396636
PMCPMC5915496
OpenAlexW2786810940

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Registered trials

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