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ArticleCanadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada2019

Simon Gauvin, Alexis Rompré-Brodeur, Guillaume Chaussé, Maurice Anidjar, Franck Bladou, Stephan Probst

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Article in Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Diagnostic accuracy ofThe British journal of radiology · 2019
    Pooled it
  3. Article
  4. StagingEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2022
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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

6 authors.

Simon GauvinDepartment of Radiology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Alexis Rompré-BrodeurDepartment of Urology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Guillaume ChausséDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Maurice AnidjarDepartment of Urology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Franck BladouDepartment of Urology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Stephan ProbstDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionWe sought to evaluate the diagnostic performance of

methodsWe conducted a retrospective study of 76 patients who underwent

resultsTwenty-two (29%) PET/CT scans were positive, 49 (64%) negative, and five (7%) equivocal for nodal or metastatic disease. Of the positive scans, 17 showed regional lymph node involvement, 12 distant nodes, five bone metastases, and three lung metastases. Overall per-patient sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values for metastatic disease were 65%, 100%, 100%, and 78%, respectively. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were 64%, 100%, 100%, and 80%, respectively, for nodal involvement and 86%, 100%, 100%, and 98%, respectively, for bone and other metastases. Conventional imaging was negative for the lesion(s) found on PET/CT in five patients. PET/CT changed the clinical management in nine patients (12%).

conclusionsAlthough

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PMID30273114
PMCPMC6456350

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