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ArticleBMJ case reports2019

Unusual cause of mechanical small bowel obstruction in a cachectic older multiparous woman.

Fidel Rampersad, Ashton Ramsundar, Ryan Ramsumair, Megan Munro

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In one paragraph

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 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Obturator hernias: a systematic review of the literature.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2021
    Pooled it
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.

Fidel RampersadRadiology, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4354-9274
Ashton RamsundarRadiology, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex Compound, Champ Fleurs, Trinidad and Tobago.
Ryan RamsumairAccident and Emergency, North Central Regional Health Authority, Champ Fleurs, Trinidad and Tobago.
Megan MunroAccident and Emergency, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex Compound, Champs Fleurs, Trinidad and Tobago.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Aged, 80 and overCachexiaDiagnosis, DifferentialFatal OutcomeFemaleHernia, ObturatorHumansIntestinal ObstructionIntestine, SmallMultidetector Computed TomographyParitygeneral surgeryradiology

Identifiers

PMID31248888
PMCPMC6605908

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Registered trials

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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.