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ArticleCureus2020

Pyogenic Flexor Tenosynovitis Caused by Shewanella putrefaciens.

Anooj Patel, Mona Ascha, Ayesha Punjabi, Marco Swanson, Tobias C Long

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Article in Cureus, 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
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Virulence · 2022
    Review
  2. Identification ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
    Article
  3. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anooj PatelPlastic Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, USA.
Mona AschaPlastic Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, USA.
Ayesha PunjabiPlastic Surgery, University Hospitals, Cleveland, USA.
Marco SwansonPlastic Surgery, University Hospitals, Cleveland, USA.
Tobias C LongPlastic Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, USA.
University Hospitals of Cleveland · USCase Western Reserve University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flexor tenosynovitis is a surgical emergency due to the risk of tendon necrosis which can lead to subsequent amputation. We report a case of flexor tenosynovitis with Shewanella putrefaciens as the implicated organism, though the patient's mechanism of penetrating trauma did not involve a marine exposure. Shewanella are Gram negative bacilli associated with marine environments and have rarely been implicated in human disease. This patient presented with all four of Kanavel's signs and required open surgical irrigation and debridement; he was found to have purulence but no flexor tendon necrosis. This case emphasizes the importance of considering marine organisms as putative for flexor tenosynovitis, even if marine exposure does not occur at the time of the penetrating trauma. It also emphasizes the need to obtain a thorough patient history, especially in cases of infection, to assess for all possible environmental exposures.

Indexed as

dip: distal interphalangealflexor tenosynovitisshewanella putrefaciens

Identifiers

PMID32542166
PMCPMC7292706
OpenAlexW3025247936

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