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ReviewBMJ case reports2020

Head and neck cutaneous metastasis of testicular choriocarcinoma.

Sepehr Shabani, Nicholas Pritchard, Tapan A Padhya, Matthew Mifsud

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Review in BMJ case reports, 2020. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

4 authors.

Sepehr ShabaniDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA sshabani@usf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5938-0728
Nicholas PritchardDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Tapan A PadhyaDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Matthew MifsudDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Testicular choriocarcinoma (CC) is a malignant germ cell tumour which most frequently presents with disseminated metastasis, often involving the lungs, brain and liver. Metastatic are characterised by extensive vascularity, often causing patients to present emergently with potentially life-threatening haemorrhagic complications. We report a patient with disseminated testicular CC, presenting with haemorrhage from a dermal metastatic focus involving the lower lip and mentum, requiring surgical intervention. This unique case illustrates the potential utility of palliative surgery, for the management of symptomatic metastatic disease, such as those caused by testicular CC.

Indexed as

AdultChinChoriocarcinomaHead and Neck NeoplasmsHemorrhageHumansLipMaleNeoplasms, Germ Cell and EmbryonalPalliative CareSkin NeoplasmsTesticular Neoplasmsear, nose and throat/otolaryngologyhead and neck surgerymalignant disease and immunosuppressionotolaryngology / ENTsurgical oncology

Identifiers

PMID32102892
PMCPMC7046418
OpenAlexW3007167942

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