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ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2020

Isolated cerebellar abscess by

Sonakshi Srivastava, Rimjhim Kanaujia, Sushant Kumar Sahoo, Parth Jani, Archana Angrup, Shivaprakash M Rudramurthy, Pallab Ray

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Article 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 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sonakshi SrivastavaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Rimjhim KanaujiaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Sushant Kumar SahooDepartment of Neurosurgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Parth JaniDepartment of Neurosurgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Archana AngrupDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Shivaprakash M RudramurthyDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Pallab RayDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human nocardiosis is primarily an opportunistic infection affecting immunocompromised patients, however, one-third of them are immunocompetent. CNS involvement is less commonly reported and associated with a grave prognosis. The majority of these patients are organ transplant recipients on immune suppressants. In the recent past, association of

Indexed as

Cerebellar abscessMALDI-TOF MSNorcardia asiaticaopportunistic infection

Identifiers

PMID32318503
PMCPMC7113929
OpenAlexW3009105793

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Registered trials

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