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ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2021

Images of the month 1: Trident sign and neurosarcoidosis.

Emily Gibbons, Daniel Whittam, Anu Jacob, Saif Huda

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Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Emily GibbonsThe Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK emily.gibbons@thewaltoncentre.nhs.uk.
Daniel WhittamSalford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK.
Anu JacobThe Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK and Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Saif HudaThe Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK.
University of Liverpool · GBSalford Royal NHS Foundation Trust · GBWalton Centre · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 36-year-old woman presented with a subacute, relapsing myelitis, manifesting as bilateral ascending lower limb paraesthesia, partially responsive to steroids. Imaging demonstrated a longitudinal spinal cord lesion, with a unique and characteristic sign (the 'trident sign') on axial views, which is specific to a diagnosis of neurosarcoidosis. This case highlights the importance of using this feature to distinguish a longitudinal cord lesion of sarcoidosis from other differentials.

Indexed as

Central Nervous System DiseasesSarcoidosisAdultFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingSpinal Cordmyelitisneurosarcoidosissarcoidosistrident sign

Identifiers

PMID34862230
PMCPMC8806289
OpenAlexW3217536059

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.