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ArticleCureus2020

Symptomatic Cervical Tumoral Calcinosis due to Cosmetic Body Contouring Mineral Oil Injections.

Julie L Chan, Robin Babadjouni, Wendy Sacks, Serguei I Bannykh, Alexander Tuchman

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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.

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1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 78% 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, 1 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.

Julie L ChanNeurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA.
Robin BabadjouniNeurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA.
Wendy SacksEndocrinology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA.
Serguei I BannykhPathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA.
Alexander TuchmanNeurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumoral calcinosis (TC) is an uncommon disease that has been linked to familial genetic mutations but can often be due to secondary causes such as chronic renal failure and hyperparathyroidism. There are rare instances of tumoral calcinosis induced by foreign body injections, often for cosmetic purposes. Here we describe operative management of spinal cord compression due to mineral oil injection induced tumoral calcinosis. A 54-year-old transgender female presented with signs of myelopathy so severe that she had become wheelchair bound. Labs demonstrated hypercalcemia and imaging of the neuroaxis revealed significant calcification resulting in cervicothoracic and lumbar central canal stenosis. Given symptomatic cervical spinal cord compression, she was taken to the OR for urgent laminectomy and decompression. Postoperatively, she recovered well and was ambulating independently by postoperative day (POD) 9. This is the first reported case of localized mineral oil injections causing distant calcification with subsequent symptomatic cord compression requiring operative intervention.

Indexed as

body contouringcervical stenosisforeign body injectionstumoral calcinosis

Identifiers

PMID33403173
PMCPMC7773296
OpenAlexW3107850694

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