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ArticleCureus2021

Negative Impact of COVID-19 Upon Primary Brain Tumor Care.

Gurpreet Sarwan, Taufif Mubarak, Persis Puello, Michael Brisman, Jai Grewal

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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 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted clinical care and research in Neuro-Oncology?Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia · 2022
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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gurpreet SarwanPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, USA.
Taufif MubarakAnesthesiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Oceanside, USA.
Persis PuelloFamily Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Oceanside, USA.
Michael BrismanNeurosurgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Oceanside, USA.
Jai GrewalNeuro-oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Oceanside, USA.
Mount Sinai Hospital · USMount Sinai Hospital · USMount Sinai Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Meningiomas are the most common primary central nervous system tumors, as they can account for up to one-third of all primary brain tumors. Most meningiomas are benign, although up to one-fourth of such tumors are classified as atypical or malignant. Atypical and malignant meningiomas are associated with an increased risk of local recurrence and decreased overall survival. Our patient is a 57-year-old male with a history of recurrent malignant meningioma, with metastasis to the liver. He underwent multiple surgical interventions, radiation treatments, and systemic therapies for a malignant meningioma, ultimately requiring transfer to hospice care. Not only did a positive novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection delay his ability to receive radiation therapy, the infection in itself may have had an impact on the course of care for this patient. Treatment targeting the patient's COVID-19 infection may have suppressed the immune system, and as a result, caused the progression of metastatic disease. Palliative care was needed in the setting of losing all functional goals for quality of life due to malignant neoplasm.

Indexed as

covid 19hepatic tumorspaliative carerecurrent meningiomasars-cov-2

Identifiers

PMID34660010
PMCPMC8496556
OpenAlexW3196658935

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