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ArticleAmerican journal of ophthalmology case reports2020

An amelanotic choroidal melanoma arising in a young man with tattoo-associated sarcoidosis.

Sean T Berkowitz, Anderson L Brock, David A Reichstein

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Article in American journal of ophthalmology 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
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

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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Sarcoid Uveitis: An Intriguing Challenger.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022
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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sean T BerkowitzVanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA.
Anderson L BrockTennessee Retina, PC, Nashville, TN, USA.
David A ReichsteinTennessee Retina, PC, Nashville, TN, USA.
Tennessee Retina · USVanderbilt University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo describe a patient with an amelanotic choroidal melanoma, originally misdiagnosed as a choroidal granuloma, following his systemic diagnosis of tattoo-associated sarcoidosis. OBSERVATIONS: The amelanotic choroidal tumor, suspected to be a granuloma, failed initial steroid treatment. Full-thickness chorioretinal biopsy demonstrated histologic presence of uveal melanoma and tumor genetics via GEP analysis demonstrated a PRAME negative, Class 1A lesion. The amelanotic choroidal melanoma was treated successfully with I-125 plaque brachytherapy. CONCLUSION AND IMPORTANCE: Despite a systemic diagnosis which predisposes a patient to uveal granuloma, amelanotic choroidal melanomas can still occur and should be considered. The association of uveal melanoma and sarcoidosis remains rare and of unclear significance.

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EyeSarcoidosisTumorUveal melanoma

Identifiers

PMID32211561
PMCPMC7082514
OpenAlexW3010646460

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