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ArticleRisk management and healthcare policy2021

Beware of Pleural Thickening and Calcification: An Enlightenment from a Case of Tuberculous Pleurisy.

Yu Zhu, Yan-Hong Gao, Jia-Ni Zou, Er-Ping Xi

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Article in Risk management and healthcare policy, 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
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yu Zhu *Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, General Hospital of the Central Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China.
Yan-Hong Gao *Department of Ultrasound, General Hospital of the Central Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China.
Jia-Ni ZouDepartment of Radiology, General Hospital of the Central Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China.
Er-Ping XiDepartment of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, General Hospital of the Central Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China.
Central Hospital of Wuhan · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculous pleurisy, a type of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, is the pleural inflammation caused by hypersensitive response of the pleural cavity stimulated by mycobacterium tuberculosis and its metabolites. If the patient does not receive timely and effective treatment and intervention, a large amount of fibrin will be deposited which will cause pleural thickening, adhesions, and even calcification. At present, clinical cases of typical pleural thickening and calcification have been rarely reported. In this paper, we will report a case of significant pleural thickening and calcification caused by tuberculous pleurisy; moreover, the patient earliest got tuberculous pleurisy about in 20 years ago and had received anti-tuberculous treatment at that time. The patient's typical crescent-shaped shadow created by pleural thickening and calcification is very rare in the domestic and international literature.

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calcificationpleurathickeningtuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID33883959
PMCPMC8054818
OpenAlexW3154336958

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