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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Trigeminal neuralgia leading to a diagnosis of ovarian cancer: a timely coincidence or a case of paraneoplastic syndrome?

Jonathan Gaughran, Tom Lyne, Ahmad Sayasneh

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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 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 44% 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

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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jonathan GaughranGynaecology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK gaughraj@tcd.ie.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4469-429X
Tom LyneFaculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
Ahmad SayasnehSurgical Oncology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
King's College London · GBSt Thomas' Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 51-year-old woman was referred to oral medicine with a 2-month history of progressive paraesthesia of the right lip, chin and oral mucosa. Examination revealed decreased sensation to the right dermatone of the inferior alveolar nerve and allodynia to light touch of the lower lip. An MRI of the head revealed bilateral cisternal trigeminal nerve pathological enhancement. While blood tests suggested a connective tissue disorder as the cause of the trigeminal neuralgia, a subsequent diagnosis of high-grade serous ovarian cancer gave a differential diagnosis of paraneoplastic syndrome.

Indexed as

Ovarian NeoplasmsParaneoplastic SyndromesTrigeminal NeuralgiaChinFemaleHumansMiddle AgedTrigeminal Nervegynaecological cancerneuroendocrinologyradiologySjogren's syndromesurgical oncology

Identifiers

PMID34210705
PMCPMC8252678
OpenAlexW3174249358

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