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ReviewJournal of family medicine and primary care2020

Viral infections of oral cavity.

Arvind Babu Rajendra Santosh, Keerthi Muddana

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Review in Journal of family medicine and primary care, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 115 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Oral Ulcers Associated with Scrub Typhus.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2021
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Arvind Babu Rajendra SantoshOral and Maxillofacial Pathologist, School of Dentistry, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, Jamaica.
Keerthi MuddanaOral and Maxillofacial Pathologist, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Kamineni Institute of Dental Sciences, Sreepuram, Narketpally, Nalgonda - 508 254, Telangana, India.
Kamineni Institute of Dental Sciences · INUniversity of the West Indies System · JM

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viral infections of the oral cavity usually manifest as either ulceration or blistering presentation of oral tissues. Oral viral infections are encountered in dental practice but received less clinical interest due to the lesser frequency of patients and diagnostic challenges. The clinical presentation, pathogenic mechanism, investigations, and management of oral viral infections are integrated into the article which will enable general dentists to develop critical thinking processes on differential diagnosis and management through a multidisciplinary approach with specialist dentists.

Indexed as

Acyclovirblisterherpesoral cavityzoster

Identifiers

PMID32110562
PMCPMC7014888
OpenAlexW3003223535

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Registered trials

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