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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2021

Kimura disease: a rare cause of a recurrent cheek mass in a Jamaican man.

Geoffrey Williams, Carlos Neblett, Jade Arscott, Sheena McLean, Shereika Warren, Garfield Blake

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 48% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Geoffrey WilliamsDivision of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cornwall Regional Hospital, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Carlos NeblettDivision of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cornwall Regional Hospital, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Jade ArscottDivision of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cornwall Regional Hospital, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Sheena McLeanDivision of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cornwall Regional Hospital, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Shereika WarrenDivision of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cornwall Regional Hospital, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Garfield BlakeDepartment of Pathology, Cornwall Regional Hospital, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Cornwall Regional Hospital · JM

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Kimura disease (KD) is a chronic, inflammatory, benign disorder endemic to Asia that typically manifests as a triad of painless masses in the head and neck region, elevated eosinophils and serum immunoglobulin. It usually affects young men in their second and third decades of life and is rarely seen outside of the orient. This is a report of a case of KD in a young man of African descent who presented with a cheek mass. KD was not included in our differential diagnosis, and this report highlights the need to consider this entity, which can be easily missed due to its rarity in the Western world. There is no cure for the disease, and management includes medical and surgical modalities, but local recurrence or relapse is not uncommon.

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PMID33927850
PMCPMC8057133
OpenAlexW3155985011

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