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ArticleClinical case reports2019

Malignant epidural spinal cord compression secondary to testicular cancer (mixed choriocarcinoma and seminoma) in the immediate post radical orchidectomy period.

Alain Mwamba Mukendi, Robin Friedman, Abdullah Ismail

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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 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 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.

Alain Mwamba MukendiUrology Department, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital University of the Witwatersrand Soweto South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3397-1685
Robin FriedmanUrology Department, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital University of the Witwatersrand Soweto South Africa.
Abdullah IsmailAnatomical Pathology Department, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital University of the Witwatersrand Soweto South Africa.
University of the Witwatersrand · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute spinal cord compression in the immediate postoperative period from a possible choriocarcinoma syndrome (CCS) on hemorrhagic epidural spinal metastasis has never been described before and needs to be promptly recognized and managed. A low hemoglobin associated with choriocarcinoma should raise suspicion of this syndrome.

Indexed as

choriocarcinomachoriocarcinoma syndromemixed germ cell tumorseminomaspinal cord compression

Identifiers

PMID31110723
PMCPMC6509927
OpenAlexW2925641911

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