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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2020

Intra-Abdominal Nocardiosis-Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Lucas Tramèr, Kirsten D Mertz, Rolf Huegli, Vladimira Hinic, Lorenz Jost, Felix Burkhalter, Sebastian Wirz, Philip E Tarr

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Case Report: Diagnosis ofFrontiers in medicine · 2025
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  6. Infectious Diarrhea Caused byInfection and drug resistance · 2024
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  7. Abdominal Abscesses Caused byInfection and drug resistance · 2023
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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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Lucas TramèrUniversity Department of Medicine, Kantonsspital Baselland, University of Basel, 4101 Bruderholz, Switzerland.
Kirsten D MertzCantonal Institute of Pathology, 4410 Liestal, Switzerland.
Rolf HuegliDepartment of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kantonsspital Baselland, 4101 Bruderholz, Switzerland.
Vladimira HinicClinical Bacteriology and Mycology, Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.
Lorenz JostUniversity Department of Medicine, Kantonsspital Baselland, University of Basel, 4101 Bruderholz, Switzerland.
Felix BurkhalterUniversity Department of Medicine, Kantonsspital Baselland, University of Basel, 4101 Bruderholz, Switzerland.
Sebastian WirzUniversity Department of Medicine, Kantonsspital Baselland, University of Basel, 4101 Bruderholz, Switzerland.
Philip E TarrUniversity Department of Medicine, Kantonsspital Baselland, University of Basel, 4101 Bruderholz, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1488-5407
University of Basel · CHKantonsspital Baselland Standort Bruderholz · CHTheological Seminary Bienenberg · CHUniversity Hospital of Basel · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nocardiosis is primarily an opportunistic infection affecting immunosuppressed individuals, in whom it most commonly presents as pulmonary infection and sometimes cerebral abscesses. Isolated abdominal or retroperitoneal nocardiosis is rare. Here, we report the second case, to our knowledge, of isolated abdominal nocardiosis due to

Indexed as

abdominalabscessimmunosuppressioninfectionmalignancyNocardia paucivoransnocardiosisretroperitoneal

Identifiers

PMID32645935
PMCPMC7408857
OpenAlexW3041295618

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