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ReviewVirchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology2022

"Stranger things" in the gut: uncommon items in gastrointestinal specimens.

Federica Grillo, Michela Campora, Luca Carlin, Laura Cornara, Paola Parente, Alessandro Vanoli, Andrea Remo, Paola Migliora, Fiocca Roberto, Matteo Fassan and 1 more

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Review in Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 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

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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.

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  3. Biliary obstruction caused by plant seeds.Clinical journal of gastroenterology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Federica GrilloIRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Anatomic Pathology Unit, Genova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6477-3182
Michela CamporaAnatomic Pathology Section, S. Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8638-0080
Luca CarlinAnatomic Pathology, Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics (DISC), University of Genova, Largo Rosanna Benzi 10, 16132, Genova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6332-5756
Laura CornaraDepartment for the Earth, Environment and Life Sciences (DiSTAV), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Paola ParentePathology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, FG, Italy.
Alessandro VanoliAnatomic Pathology Unit, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, and IRCCS San Matteo Hospital, Pavia, Italy.
Andrea RemoPathology Unit, Service Department, ULSS9 "Scaligera", Verona, Italy.
Paola MiglioraClinical Cytopathology Service and Pathology Institute of Locarno, Locarno, Switzerland.
Fiocca RobertoIRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Anatomic Pathology Unit, Genova, Italy.
Matteo FassanSurgical Pathology Unit, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Luca MastracciIRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Anatomic Pathology Unit, Genova, Italy. luca.mastracci@unige.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0193-5281

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organic (such as parasites or vegetable remnants) and inorganic substances may be encountered during routine pathology diagnostic work up of endoscopic gastrointestinal biopsy samples and major resections, causing possible diagnostic conundrums for the young and not so young pathologists. The main aim of this review is the description of the most frequent oddities one can encounter as foreign bodies, in gastrointestinal pathology, on the basis of the current literature and personal experience. The types of encountered substances are divided into four principal categories: parasites (helminths such as Enterobius vermicularis, Strongyloides, Schistosoma, and Anisakis, and protozoa such as Entamoeba, Giardia and some intestinal coccidia); drugs and pharmaceutical fillers (found as deposits and as bystanders, innocent or not); seeds (possibly confused with worms) and plant remnants; pollutants (secondary to post-resection or post-biopsy contamination of the sample). An ample library of images is provided in order to consent easy referencing for diagnostic routine.

Indexed as

GiardiasisIntestinal Diseases, ParasiticAnimalsEnterobiusGiardiaHumansAmebiasisGastrointestinal diseasesParasitesSchistosomiasisStrongyloides

Identifiers

PMID34599376
PMCPMC8986674

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