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ArticleJournal of pediatric intensive care2018

Botulinum Toxin A for Spastic Trismus Due to Brain Stem Encephalitis in a Pediatric Intensive Care Setting: A Unique Case Report.

Fadi Kobal, Ayyoub Baqer, Jai Shanthini Singaram

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Article in Journal of pediatric intensive care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

1 citing paper 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fadi KobalDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Farwaniya Hospital, Kuwait.
Ayyoub BaqerDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Farwaniya Hospital, Kuwait.
Jai Shanthini SingaramDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Farwaniya Hospital, Kuwait.
Farwaniya Hospital · KW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Injection of botulinum toxin A to masseter and temporalis muscles improved mouth opening and facilitated suction and oral care in a child with spastic trismus. This is the first such report in a 3.5-year-old child on mechanical ventilator in pediatric intensive care unit setting.

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interincisal distancemasseteroral caresuctiontemporalis

Identifiers

PMID31073499
PMCPMC6506672
OpenAlexW2808628877

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