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ArticleClinical case reports2020

New onset of Bell's palsy in a patient with West Nile Encephalitis.

Tetyana Vaysman, Anna Melkonyan, Antonio Liu

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Article in Clinical case reports, 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
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 54% 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.

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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tetyana VaysmanDepartment of Medicine University of Maryland Capital Region Health Cheverly MD USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-0213
Anna MelkonyanDepartment of Neurology Adventist Health White Memorial Los Angeles CA USA.
Antonio LiuDepartment of Neurology Adventist Health White Memorial Los Angeles CA USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1932-7308
White Memorial Medical Center · USPrince George's Hospital Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The case report presented a patient who was diagnosed with West Nile virus encephalitis and developed new onset of Bell's palsy within 8 days of diagnosis. Given the incidence of WNV, it would be beneficial to evaluate WNV-infected patients for peripheral neuropathy which nowadays has quite practical implication.

Indexed as

Bell's palsyencephalitisWest Nile virus

Identifiers

PMID33088514
PMCPMC7562893
OpenAlexW3036437458

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