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ArticleBMJ case reports2019

Lingual tonsil abscess: a rare, life-threatening cause of acute sore throat.

Shashi Awai, Benjamin John Miller, Lilia Dimitrov, Andrew John Williamson

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 38% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Posterior Lingual Abscess; Report of Two Cases.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2023
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Tongue Abscess: A Case Report.International medical case reports journal · 2022
    Article
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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shashi AwaiDepartment of ENT, East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, UK.
Benjamin John MillerDepartment of ENT, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
Lilia DimitrovDepartment of ENT, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
Andrew John WilliamsonDepartment of ENT, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3861-4847
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · GBEast Surrey Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AbscessAcute DiseaseAdministration, OralAnti-Bacterial AgentsDiagnosis, DifferentialDysphoniaFemaleHumansMiddle AgedPalatine TonsilPharyngitisTongueTreatment OutcomeAnti-Bacterial Agentsear, nose and throatear, nose and throat/otolaryngologyotolaryngology / ent

Identifiers

PMID31126932
PMCPMC6536224
OpenAlexW2945340021

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.