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ArticleClinical case reports2018

Cheilitis: An unusual presentation of Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis.

Vathulan Sujanitha, Thirunavukarasu Kumanan, Srisaravanapavananthan Felicia, Navaneethakrishnan Suganthan

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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.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Unusual Observations in Leishmaniasis-An Overview.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
  2. [New diagnostic classification of cheilitis and its clinical diagnostic pathway].Hua xi kou qiang yi xue za zhi = Huaxi kouqiang yixue zazhi = West China journal of stomatology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vathulan SujanithaTeaching Hospital-Jaffna Jaffna Sri Lanka.ORCID 0000-0003-0330-7254
Thirunavukarasu KumananTeaching Hospital-Jaffna Jaffna Sri Lanka.
Srisaravanapavananthan FeliciaTeaching Hospital-Jaffna Jaffna Sri Lanka.
Navaneethakrishnan SuganthanTeaching Hospital-Jaffna Jaffna Sri Lanka.
Jaffna Teaching Hospital · LK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis (MCL) involving lip is extremely uncommon. A clinical diagnosis of Leishmaniasis of the lips is often challenging to the treating clinician and may result in delayed diagnosis as this case illustrates. MCL should be considered in the differential diagnosis of lip lesions in a Leishmania endemic area.

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cheilitisendemicleishmaniasismucocutaneous

Identifiers

PMID29988622
PMCPMC6028403
OpenAlexW2805998778

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