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ArticleCureus2021

Elucidating the Etiologies of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-Avid Mediastinal Lymph Nodes Among Cancer Patients in a Tuberculosis-Endemic Region Using Endobronchial Ultrasound.

Usman Khalid, Muhammad J Akram, Muhammad Abu Bakar, Faheem M Butt, Mohammad B Ashraf

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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 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Usman KhalidInternal Medicine, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, PAK.
Muhammad J AkramInternal Medicine, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, PAK.
Muhammad Abu BakarCancer Registry, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, PAK.
Faheem M ButtInternal Medicine, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, PAK.
Mohammad B AshrafInternal Medicine, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, PAK.
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background Non-malignant conditions, including infections (such as tuberculosis [TB]), can mimic malignancy with regards to their uptake of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (

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18f-fdgcancerebusmediastinal lymph nodepettb

Identifiers

PMID34909300
PMCPMC8651531
OpenAlexW3212135219

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