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ArticleEnvironmental health : a global access science source2019

Response to the "Letter to the Editor" by Gabor Mezei et al., Comments on Vimercati et al., 2019, "Asbestos exposure and malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis: a systematic review and the experience of the Apulia (Southern Italy) mesothelioma register".

Luigi Vimercati, Domenica Cavone, Maria Celeste Delfino, Luigi De Maria, Antonio Caputi, Giovanni Maria Ferri, Gabriella Serio

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Article in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

7 authors.

Luigi VimercatiInterdisciplinary Department of Medicine (DIM), Unit of Occupational Medicine, University Aldo Moro of Bari Medical School, 11 G. Cesare Square, 70124, Bari, Italy. luigi.vimercati@uniba.it.ORCID 0000-0002-4072-2871
Domenica CavoneInterdisciplinary Department of Medicine (DIM), Unit of Occupational Medicine, University Aldo Moro of Bari Medical School, 11 G. Cesare Square, 70124, Bari, Italy.
Maria Celeste DelfinoInterdisciplinary Department of Medicine (DIM), Unit of Occupational Medicine, University Aldo Moro of Bari Medical School, 11 G. Cesare Square, 70124, Bari, Italy.
Luigi De MariaInterdisciplinary Department of Medicine (DIM), Unit of Occupational Medicine, University Aldo Moro of Bari Medical School, 11 G. Cesare Square, 70124, Bari, Italy.
Antonio CaputiInterdisciplinary Department of Medicine (DIM), Unit of Occupational Medicine, University Aldo Moro of Bari Medical School, 11 G. Cesare Square, 70124, Bari, Italy.
Giovanni Maria FerriInterdisciplinary Department of Medicine (DIM), Unit of Occupational Medicine, University Aldo Moro of Bari Medical School, 11 G. Cesare Square, 70124, Bari, Italy.
Gabriella SerioDepartment of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO), Pathology Division, University Aldo Moro of Bari Medical School, 11 G. Cesare Square, 70124, Bari, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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EpidemiologyEtiologyMalignant mesotheliomaTunica vaginalis testis

Identifiers

PMID31878930
PMCPMC6933620

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