Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29600105›Full record

ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2018

Fan-shaped ground-glass opacity (GGO) as a premonitory sign of pulmonary infarction: a case report.

Tsutomu Shinohara, Keishi Naruse, Norihiko Hamada, Takashi Yamasaki, Nobuo Hatakeyama, Fumitaka Ogushi

Open access · hybridAbstract readCase Reports
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Prediction of Pulmonary Embolism Following Resection of Pulmonary Infarction: A Case Series.Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia · 2021
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Multimodal indirect imaging signs of pulmonary embolism.The British journal of radiology · 2020
    Article
  6. Association Between Inferior Vena Cava-Involved Thrombosis, Severe Iliac Vein Stenosis, and Proximal Pulmonary Embolism in Patients With Deep Vein Thrombosis.Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
    Article
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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tsutomu ShinoharaDepartment of Clinical Investigation, National Hospital Organization Kochi Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
Keishi NaruseDivision of Pathology, National Hospital Organization Kochi Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
Norihiko HamadaDivision of Radiology, National Hospital Organization Kochi Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
Takashi YamasakiDivision of Cardiovascular Disease, National Hospital Organization Kochi Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
Nobuo HatakeyamaDivision of Pulmonary Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kochi Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
Fumitaka OgushiDivision of Pulmonary Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kochi Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
National Hospital Organization Kochi National Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiological findings of pulmonary infarction have been well characterized mainly in established infarction. However, the early course CT appearance of patients who develop pulmonary infarction has not yet been fully elucidated. A 50-year-old female with a history of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) presented with dry cough and high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) findings of fan-shaped segmental ground-glass opacity (GGO) in the right lower lobe. As the parenchymal density in the GGO gradually enlarged over a period of 4 weeks in spite of antibiotic treatment, the patient was referred to our hospital on clinical suspicion of bronchioloalveolar cell carcinoma. However, the pathological findings of a transbronchial biopsy of the lesion were compatible with pulmonary infarction. After an endoscopic examination, the typical CT appearance of established pulmonary infarction was observed. Moreover, enhanced CT detected an intraluminal filling defect in the right lower lobe artery suggesting peripheral pulmonary emboli. Our case was a peripheral pulmonary infarction probably induced by HRT, and suggested that fan-shaped GGO may be a premonitory sign of pulmonary infarction.

Indexed as

ground-glass opacity (GGO)premonitory signPulmonary infarctiontransbronchial biopsy

Identifiers

PMID29600105
PMCPMC5863182
OpenAlexW2785835920

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.