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ArticleRadiology case reports2019

Multimodal imaging of fibrosing mesenteric tuberculosis.

Harikrishna Rajendran, Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel Razek, Shefeek Abubacker

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Article in Radiology 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.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Harikrishna RajendranRadiology Division, New Ahmadi Hospital, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Kuwait.
Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel RazekDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura 13551, Egypt.
Shefeek AbubackerRadiology Division, New Ahmadi Hospital, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Kuwait.
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) · KWMansoura University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article presents fibrosing mesenteric tuberculosis in a 19-year-old Arab boy who presented with weight loss, fever, abdominal pain, and distension. Abdominal contrast enhanced computed tomography (CECT) was performed which showed large infiltrative ill-defined mesenteric-based enhancing soft tissue phlegmonous mass with surrounding desmoplastic reaction causing retraction-kinking of small bowel loops associated with central necrotic mesenteric lymph nodes, multifocal small bowel wall thickening, and ascites. Abdominal tuberculosis is a diagnostic challenge particularly if pulmonary tuberculosis is absent as in this case. CT appears to be the modality of choice if clinical and epidemiological suspicion is high in order to ensure early treatment for a favorable outcome.

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Computed tomographyMesenteric tuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID31193572
PMCPMC6536619
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