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ArticleScientific reports2021

Impact of unknown incidental findings in PET/CT examinations of patients with proven or suspected vascular graft or endograft infections.

Lars Husmann, Nadia Eberhard, Martin W Huellner, Bruno Ledergerber, Anna Mueller, Hannes Gruenig, Michael Messerli, Carlos-A Mestres, Zoran Rancic, Alexander Zimmermann and 1 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. EANM/SNMMI guideline/procedure standard for [European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2025
    Guideline
  2. Article
  3. FDG-PET/CT in infected and non-infected prosthetic vascular grafts.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2025
    Article
  4. Definitions of Incidental [Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Review
  5. The Diagnostic Yield of [Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Article
  6. Significance and current approaches to vascular graft infection.Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lars HusmannDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland. lars.husmann@usz.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-5878-0818
Nadia EberhardDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Martin W HuellnerDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland.
Bruno LedergerberDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Anna MuellerDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Hannes GruenigDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland.
Michael MesserliDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland.
Carlos-A MestresClinic for Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Zoran RancicClinic for Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Alexander ZimmermannClinic for Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Barbara HasseDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
University of Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vascular graft or endograft Infections (VGEI) are rare but severe complications of vascular reconstructive surgery, and associated with significant mortality and morbidity risk. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography with

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Positron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyAgedBlood Vessel ProsthesisBlood VesselsCommunicable DiseasesFemaleFluorodeoxyglucose F18HumansIncidental FindingsMaleMiddle AgedPlastic Surgery ProceduresPositron-Emission TomographyVascular GraftingVascular Surgical ProceduresFluorodeoxyglucose F18

Identifiers

PMID34215835
PMCPMC8253756
OpenAlexW3177495214

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