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ArticleClinical case reports2018

Merkel cell carcinoma with intramedullary spinal cord metastasis: a very rare clinical finding.

Tarek Haykal, Basim Towfiq

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 43% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tarek HaykalDepartment of Internal Medicine Hurley Medical Center Michigan State University One Hurley Plaza Flint Michigan 48503.ORCID 0000-0002-5215-0532
Basim TowfiqDepartment of Internal Medicine Hurley Medical Center Michigan State University One Hurley Plaza Flint Michigan 48503.
Hurley Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This clinical image teaches readers that a rare finding such as intramedullary spinal metastasis could exist even in the rarest tumors. It adds to the literature how it was managed. It also might reflect the improvement of our cancer treatment allowing us to follow patients longer to find those rare findings in rare tumors.

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IntramedullaryMerkelmetastasisspinal cord

Identifiers

PMID29881592
PMCPMC5985991
OpenAlexW2807515019

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