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ArticleIn vivo (Athens, Greece)

Comparison of FDG-PET/CT for Cancer Detection in Populations With Different Risks of Underlying Malignancy.

Hung-Pin Chan, Wen-Shan Liu, Wen-Shiung Liou, Chin Hu, Yu-Li Chiu, Nan-Jing Peng

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Article in In vivo (Athens, Greece). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hung-Pin ChanDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Wen-Shan LiuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Wen-Shiung LiouDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Chin HuDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Yu-Li ChiuDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Nan-Jing PengDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C. njpeng@vghks.gov.tw.
Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Fluorodeoxyglucose F18RadiopharmaceuticalsEarly Detection of CancerFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasmsPositron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyPrognosisRetrospective StudiesFluorodeoxyglucose F18RadiopharmaceuticalsCancer screeningFDGnuclear medicineoncologic imagingPET/CT

Identifiers

PMID31882515
PMCPMC6984113
OpenAlexW2997124213

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Registered trials

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