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ArticleInternational medical case reports journal2020

Long Term Follow-Up of

Kazumi Minato, Munemitsu Yoshikawa, Hideo Nakanishi, Kaori Hasegawa

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Article in International medical case reports journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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

2 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kazumi MinatoDepartment of Ophthalmology, Eye Center, Hidaka Medical Center, Toyooka Hospital, Toyooka City, Hyogo 669-5392, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9957-3236
Munemitsu YoshikawaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Eye Center, Hidaka Medical Center, Toyooka Hospital, Toyooka City, Hyogo 669-5392, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0919-1387
Hideo NakanishiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Eye Center, Hidaka Medical Center, Toyooka Hospital, Toyooka City, Hyogo 669-5392, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0158-8278
Kaori HasegawaDepartment of Microbiology, Toyooka Hospital, Toyooka City, Hyogo 668-0065, Japan.
Toyooka Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background

methodsThis study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of Hidaka Medical Center, Toyooka Hospital. A written informed consent was obtained from the patient before beginning the medical treatments. CASE REPORT: A 75-year-old man with a history of stage 4 prostate carcinoma and bilateral limbal stem cell deficiency had undergone keratoepithelioplasty on his left eye for the deficiency. Postoperatively, a greyish-white epithelial opacity was noted on the central cornea of his left eye, and he had been treated with topical fluorometholone and oral dexamethasone together with a therapeutic contact lens. Corneal smears and contact lens swabs were positive for

conclusionOur findings indicate that

Indexed as

corneainfectionPrototheca spp.treatment

Identifiers

PMID33116941
PMCPMC7555245
OpenAlexW3092347914

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