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ArticleClinical case reports2021

Cerebellar amelanotic melanoma can mimic cerebellar abscess in a pediatric case of neurocutaneous melanosis.

Enricomaria Mormina, Sergio Lucio Vinci, Alessandra Coglitore, Carmela Visalli, Agostino Tessitore, Marco Cavallaro, Karol Galletta, Francesca Granata

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Article in Clinical 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.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 43% 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, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Amelanotic melanoma of the central nervous system with systemic spread - imaging pitfalls and clues in a rare paediatric case with congenital melanocytic naevi.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Enricomaria MorminaDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morphofunctional Imaging University of Messina Messina Italy.
Sergio Lucio VinciDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morphofunctional Imaging University of Messina Messina Italy.
Alessandra CoglitoreDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morphofunctional Imaging University of Messina Messina Italy.
Carmela VisalliDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morphofunctional Imaging University of Messina Messina Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0760-8927
Agostino TessitoreDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morphofunctional Imaging University of Messina Messina Italy.
Marco CavallaroDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morphofunctional Imaging University of Messina Messina Italy.
Karol GallettaDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morphofunctional Imaging University of Messina Messina Italy.
Francesca GranataDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morphofunctional Imaging University of Messina Messina Italy.
University of Messina · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM) is a rare phakomatosis that may be associated with intracerebral masses. The differential diagnosis of intracerebral masses in NCM is often challenging and should include pigmented and nonpigmented lesions.

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Identifiers

PMID33936629
PMCPMC8077441
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