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ArticleCureus2021

A Rare Case of Small Bowel Extramedullary Plasmacytomas Presenting With Intestinal Obstruction.

Lynna Alnimer, Ali Zakaria, Bayan Alshare, Yazan Samhouri, Michael Raphael

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Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 37% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lynna AlnimerDepartment of Internal Medicine, Ascension Providence Hospital-Michigan State University/College of Human Medicine, Southfield, USA.
Ali ZakariaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Ascension Providence Hospital-Michigan State University/College of Human Medicine, Southfield, USA.
Bayan AlshareDepartment of Oncology, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, USA.
Yazan SamhouriDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, USA.
Michael RaphaelDepartment of Gastroenterology, Ascension Providence Hospital-Michigan State University/College of Human Medicine, Southfield, USA.
Providence Hospital · USAllegheny Health Network · USThe Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is a plasma cell disorder involving soft tissues in the absence of clonal bone marrow involvement or destructive bone lesions. When present in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and specifically the small intestine, it can cause a wide range of symptoms including GI bleeding, obstruction, and abdominal pain. The diagnosis is challenging, as it can hold an indolent course, and is infrequently encountered in clinical practice. Diagnosis requires biopsy of the involved organ, which can be obtained during surgery or endoscopy, and other workup to rule out systemic disease and bone marrow involvement. Treatment depends on the primary site of disease involvement and the presence of other features of systemic disease. We report a case of multiple small bowel plasmacytomas in a 51-year-old female who presented with small bowel obstruction. She eventually underwent surgical resection and is currently on chemotherapy awaiting stem cell transplant.

Indexed as

duodenumextramedullary plasmacytomagastrointestinal obstructionplasma cell dyscrasiasplasmacytomasmall bowel

Identifiers

PMID34277289
PMCPMC8285570
OpenAlexW3176296216

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