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ArticleJTO clinical and research reports2020

Anterior Mediastinal Amyloidosis Mimics Thymic Carcinoma.

Satoshi Ikeda, Hiromasa Arai, Akimasa Sekine, Koji Okudela, Tae Iwasawa, Takashi Ogura

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Article in JTO clinical and research reports, 2020. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 57% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Aggressive mediastinal amyloidosis mimicking malignancy: a case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2026
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Satoshi IkedaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Tomioka-higashi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
Hiromasa AraiDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Tomioka-higashi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
Akimasa SekineDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Tomioka-higashi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
Koji OkudelaDepartment of Pathology, Yokohama city University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
Tae IwasawaDepartment of Radiology, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Tomioka-higashi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
Takashi OguraDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Tomioka-higashi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center · JPYokohama City University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID34589940
PMCPMC8474463
OpenAlexW3015371992

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