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ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2020

The Differential Diagnosis of Discrepant Thyroid Function Tests: Insistent Pitfalls and Updated Flow-Chart Based on a Long-Standing Experience.

Irene Campi, Danila Covelli, Carla Moran, Laura Fugazzola, Chiara Cacciatore, Fabio Orlandi, Gabriella Gallone, Krishna Chatterjee, Paolo Beck-Peccoz, Luca Persani

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Article in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 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

10 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Irene CampiDepartment of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Milan, Italy.
Danila CovelliEndocrinology Unit, Graves' Orbitopathy Center, Fondazione Cà Granda Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milan, Italy.
Carla MoranMetabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge and National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Center, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Laura FugazzolaDepartment of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Milan, Italy.
Chiara CacciatoreDepartment of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Milan, Italy.
Fabio OrlandiSection of Endocrinology, Department of Oncology, Humanitas-Gradenigo Hospital, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Gabriella GalloneEndocrinology Unit, Sedes Sapientiae Hospital, Turin, Italy.
Krishna ChatterjeeMetabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge and National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Center, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Paolo Beck-PeccozDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Luca PersaniDepartment of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Milan, Italy.
IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano · ITUniversity of Milan · ITFondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico · ITIstituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITNational Institute for Health Research · GBUniversity of Turin · ITWellcome Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

MutationAdolescentAdultAgedCase-Control StudiesDelayed DiagnosisDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansHyperthyroidismMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisRetrospective StudiesThyroid Function TestsThyroid Hormone Receptors betaThyroid Hormoneshyperthyroidismimmuno-assaypituitary adenomaresistance to thyroid hormonethyroid hormonethyrotropin (TSH)

Identifiers

PMID32733382
PMCPMC7358450
OpenAlexW3041407344

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