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ArticleCase reports in medicine2018

Acute Suppurative Thyroiditis in an Intravenous Drug User with a Preexisting Goiter.

Nikhil Yegya-Raman, Tabitha Copeland, Payal Parikh

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Article in Case reports in medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Idiopathic suppuration of the thyroid gland: report of two patients and analysis of the variations in clinical presentations.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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  2. Acute suppurative thyroiditis due toArchives of endocrinology and metabolism · 2021
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nikhil Yegya-RamanDepartment of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4946-2348
Tabitha CopelandDepartment of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
Payal ParikhDepartment of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute suppurative thyroiditis (AST) is an uncommon, potentially life-threatening cause of a rapidly enlarging neck mass. It may present similarly to subacute thyroiditis, a relatively benign and self-limiting condition. We report a case of AST in an adult intravenous (IV) drug user with a preexisting goiter who presented with a left forearm abscess that grew methicillin-sensitive

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PMID29780423
PMCPMC5892251
OpenAlexW2792627791

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