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ArticleClinical case reports2019

Massive thymic hyperplasia in a 15-month-old boy: Case report and literature review.

Elisa Tadiotto, Maria Clemente, Luca Pecoraro, Giorgio Piacentini, Daniela Degani, Angelo Pietrobelli

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Elisa TadiottoPaediatric Clinic, Department of Life and Reproduction Sciences Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0366-7348
Maria ClementePaediatric Clinic, Department of Life and Reproduction Sciences Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona Italy.
Luca PecoraroPaediatric Clinic, Department of Life and Reproduction Sciences Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona Italy.
Giorgio PiacentiniPaediatric Clinic, Department of Life and Reproduction Sciences Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona Italy.
Daniela DeganiPaediatric Clinic, Department of Life and Reproduction Sciences Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona Italy.
Angelo PietrobelliPaediatric Clinic, Department of Life and Reproduction Sciences Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona Italy.
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona · ITPennington Biomedical Research Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A surgical approach is the choice in young infants with MTH, who are furthest from the time of physiological involution of the thymus, and when the thymus achieves the largest relative size, a surgical approach is the choice. Steroid therapy has been shown to be ineffective (4, 9, 16, 18-20). No surgical complications have been reported, and the outcome is excellent. Recurrence has been seen in only one case.

Indexed as

computerized tomography scanpediatricthymectomytrue thymic hyperplasia

Identifiers

PMID30656002
PMCPMC6333069
OpenAlexW2899828828

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