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ArticleCureus2019

Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis from Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Ethmoid Sinus: A Case Report.

Samer G Zammar, Max Hennessy, Joshua Warrick, Neerav Goyal, Brad E Zacharia

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Article in Cureus, 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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2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 42% 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, 3 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samer G ZammarNeurosurgery, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA.
Max HennessyOtolaryngology, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA.
Joshua WarrickPathology, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA.
Neerav GoyalOtolaryngology, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA.
Brad E ZachariaNeurosurgery, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA.
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC) is an end-stage disease with poor prognosis. This disease has not yet been reported with sinonasal carcinomatosis. We present a case of a patient who presented with posterior ethmoid/anterior cranial mass which turned out to be poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Later the patient presented with enhancement of the spinal roots and a lumbar puncture diagnosed the leptomeningeal spread of her primary disease. After intrathecal chemotherapy and palliative radiation, the patient failed to resist her disease seven months after the diagnosis. We present the first case report of leptomeningeal spread of sinonasal cancer. Although it seems rare, LMC should be on the differential of patients presenting with neurological deficits.

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cerebrospinal fluidheadleptomeningeal carcinomatosismetastasissinonasal cancersinus

Identifiers

PMID31576272
PMCPMC6764644
OpenAlexW2965858978

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