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ArticleFederal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS2021

Beneath the Surface: Massive Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma Masquerading as Meralgia Paresthetica.

John W Ostrominski, Qin Huang, Yelena Kamenker-Orlov

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Article in Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS, 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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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Meralgia Paresthetica.Current pain and headache reports · 2022
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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

3 authors.

John W Ostrominskiis a Resident Primary Care Physician; is a Pathologist in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; and is a Primary Care Physician and Director of the Resident Primary Care Clinic; all at the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center. John Ostrominski is Resident in Internal Medicine, Qin Huang and Yelena Kamenker-Orlov are Assistant Professors, all at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts.
Qin Huangis a Resident Primary Care Physician; is a Pathologist in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; and is a Primary Care Physician and Director of the Resident Primary Care Clinic; all at the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center. John Ostrominski is Resident in Internal Medicine, Qin Huang and Yelena Kamenker-Orlov are Assistant Professors, all at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts.
Yelena Kamenker-Orlovis a Resident Primary Care Physician; is a Pathologist in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; and is a Primary Care Physician and Director of the Resident Primary Care Clinic; all at the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center. John Ostrominski is Resident in Internal Medicine, Qin Huang and Yelena Kamenker-Orlov are Assistant Professors, all at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In patients presenting with focal neurologic findings involving the lower extremities, a thorough abdominal examination should be considered an integral part of the full neurologic work up.

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PMID34177242
PMCPMC8223733

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