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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Mummified thyroid nodule: a diagnostic and management conundrum.

Timothy Shao Ern Tan, Sarat Kumar Sanamandra

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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
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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.

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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

2 authors.

Timothy Shao Ern TanManchester Medical School, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK timothy.tan.shao.ern@doctors.org.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9297-4598
Sarat Kumar SanamandraDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Thyroid NeoplasmsThyroid NoduleHumansRetrospective StudiesUltrasonographyinterventional radiologyradiologythyroid diseaseultrasonography

Identifiers

PMID34031088
PMCPMC8149304

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