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ArticleTropical parasitology

Nightmares with a starry sky - Treating neurocysticercal encephalitis, how far to go.

Anirban Ghosal, Kajari Bhattacharya, A Shobhana, Rashmi Saraff

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In one paragraph

Article in Tropical parasitology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
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.

Anirban GhosalDepartment of Neurology, Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Kajari BhattacharyaDepartment of Neuroradiology, Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
A ShobhanaDepartment of Neurocritical Care, Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Rashmi SaraffDepartment of Neuro-Ophthalmology, Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cysticercosis, an infection caused by the larval stage of tapeworm

Indexed as

Albendazoledisseminated neurocysticercosisneurocysticercosis encephalitisstarry sky pattern

Identifiers

PMID33747887
PMCPMC7951064
OpenAlexW3124967199

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Registered trials

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