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ArticleCureus2021

Metachronous Bilateral Testicular Plasmacytoma After an Initial Soft Tissue, Extramedullary Plasmacytoma.

Ioannis Manolitsis, Lazaros Tzelves, Vassilis Koutoulidis, Maria Gavriatopoulou, Ioannis Varkarakis

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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.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ioannis ManolitsisSecond Department of Urology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Lazaros TzelvesSecond Department of Urology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Vassilis KoutoulidisFirst Department of Radiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aretaieion Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Maria GavriatopoulouDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Ioannis VarkarakisSecond Department of Urology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Sismanoglio General Hospital · GRAretaeio Hospital · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Testicular plasmacytoma is a rare extramedullary manifestation of plasma cell dyscrasia. We report a case of a 53-year-old man who presented with a metachronous testicular lesion originating from a soft tissue plasmacytoma of the oral cavity. He underwent radical orchiectomy and a year later, presented with testicular plasmacytoma in the contralateral testis. He received induction chemotherapy, autologous stem cell transplantation with high dose melphalan and maintenance with lenalidomide, as he refused orchiectomy and achieved complete remission. However, six months post-transplant, he relapsed with localized disease in his testis, received second-line chemotherapy, after refusing orchiectomy and still remains in partial remission and alive.

Indexed as

extramedullary multiple myelomatesticular masstesticular neoplasmstesticular plasmacytomatestis

Identifiers

PMID34934542
PMCPMC8666563
OpenAlexW3214245385

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