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ArticleCase reports in surgery2021

Giant Abdominal Lipoma in Adult.

Nihal Cinar Ozcan, Akay Edizsoy, Tahsin Colak

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Article in Case reports in surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nihal Cinar OzcanDepartment of General Surgery, Medical Faculty, Mersin University, 33110 Mersin, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6301-2306
Akay EdizsoyDepartment of General Surgery, Medical Faculty, Mersin University, 33110 Mersin, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1259-0488
Tahsin ColakDepartment of General Surgery, Medical Faculty, Mersin University, 33110 Mersin, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7253-5608
Mersin Üniversitesi · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipomas arising from the omentum are extremely rare in adults. Omental lipomas are typically asymptomatic, but very large ones may cause nonspecific abdominal symptoms and discomfort. Rarely they can cause omental torsion and present with an acute abdomen. We report a 41-year-old female patient with a giant lipoma (40 × 26 × 8 cm and 11,520 g) who presented with mild abdominal discomfort. Workup included abdominal ultrasound (USG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Surgical resection was performed without complication. No recurrence was observed during 4-year follow-up.

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PMID33763280
PMCPMC7946470
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