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ArticleCureus2020

Rapidly Progressive Infection of Hand After a Cat Bite.

Tjasa Dimcic, Minja Gregoric, Vesna Breznik

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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 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. [Trauma surgical relevance of bite injuries by animals and humans].Unfallchirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Tjasa DimcicDepartment of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases, University Medical Center Maribor, Maribor, SVN.
Minja GregoricDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University Medical Center Maribor, Maribor, SVN.
Vesna BreznikDepartment of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases, University Medical Center Maribor, Maribor, SVN.
University Clinical Centre Maribor · SI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cat bites represent the second most common mammalian bites after dog bites and are responsible for three-quarters of bites that result in infection. We report a case of a 60-year-old retired woman who was admitted to the surgery daily clinic due to fever and pain with three necrotic bite wounds on her hand and lymphangitis, which developed one day after she had been bitten by her cat. Prompt debridement, irrigation and drainage combined with empiric oral amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, resulted in clinical improvement and reduction of elevated inflammatory parameters specifically C-reactive protein. While wound cultures remained sterile, serology results were positive for Bartonella henselae.

Indexed as

bartonella henselaecat-bitehand infection

Identifiers

PMID32724758
PMCPMC7381851
OpenAlexW3044337354

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