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ArticleClinical case reports2021

An old disease with a new twist: CNS and thyroid sarcoidosis presenting as subacute dementia.

Brooke Pace Quertermous, Sravan Kavuri, David W Walsh

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In one paragraph

Article in Clinical case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 42% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brooke Pace QuertermousMedical College of Georgia Augusta University Augusta GA USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0237-0972
Sravan KavuriMedical College of Georgia Augusta University Augusta GA USA.
David W WalshMedical College of Georgia Augusta University Augusta GA USA.
Augusta University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dementia in the elderly is extremely common and is often irreversible. When a patient presents with rapid cognitive decline, uncommon reversible etiologies should be investigated with the goal of restoring cognitive function.

Indexed as

dementiahyperthyroidismsarcoidosis

Identifiers

PMID34631064
PMCPMC8493448
OpenAlexW3174262261

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