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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Epidural abscess related to

Marc Prod'homme, Didier Grasset, Marc Chalaron, Duccio Boscherini

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In one paragraph

Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. 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
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 39% 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marc Prod'hommeNeuro Orthopedic Center, La Source College of Health, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland marcprod86@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8646-3342
Didier GrassetNeuro Orthopedic Center, La Source College of Health, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.
Marc ChalaronRadiology, La Source College of Health, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.
Duccio BoscheriniNeuro Orthopedic Center, La Source College of Health, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.
Clinique de La Source · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 57-year-old immunocompetent male patient presented himself to our emergency department with lumbar pain for 10 days, after a lumbar torsion. He was neurologically intact, but showed signs of systemic inflammatory syndrome. A lumbar MRI found a spinal epidural abscess from L3-L4 to L5-S1 levels. The patient was operated early before occurrence of neurological deficit. The abscess cultures found a

Indexed as

Epidural AbscessLow Back PainStreptococcal InfectionsHumansLumbar VertebraeMaleMiddle AgedStreptococcus mitisinfectionsorthopaedics

Identifiers

PMID33837023
PMCPMC8043008
OpenAlexW3148009387

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Registered trials

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