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ArticleCureus2020

Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications in the Breast: A Rare Instance Where a Decrease in Size on Mammogram Is Not Good.

Quan D Nguyen, Nga T Nguyen, Linden Dixon, Flavia E Posleman Monetto, Angelica S Robinson

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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 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Quan D NguyenRadiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
Nga T NguyenRadiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
Linden DixonRadiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
Flavia E Posleman MonettoRadiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
Angelica S RobinsonRadiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spontaneously resolving breast calcification on mammography is a rare radiologic finding. This phenomenon is defined by a decrease in number and/or prominence of breast calcifications on mammogram when compared to prior imaging. The significance of resolving breast calcifications remains unclear, but they have been reported in cases of malignancy. In current literature, patients whose imaging illustrated a decrease in calcifications usually had other concomitant breast complaints. We are presenting a case of invasive ductal carcinoma, in which the patient was asymptomatic on physical examination. Spontaneously resolving breast calcification and lymphadenopathy were the only abnormal findings on screening mammogram.

Indexed as

breast cancerdisappearing calcificationsinvasive ductal carcinomascreening mammogramspontaneously decreasing calcificationsspontaneously resolving calcifications

Identifiers

PMID32714691
PMCPMC7377655
OpenAlexW3036873622

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