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ArticleCureus2022

Not a Statin-Induced Myopathy: Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Presenting As Paraneoplastic Myositis.

Gonca Ozcan, Anjiya Shaikh, Erica Becker, Nikola Perosevic

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In one paragraph

Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 51% 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, 1 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gonca OzcanInternal Medicine, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, USA.
Anjiya ShaikhInternal Medicine, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, USA.
Erica BeckerInternal Medicine, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, USA.
Nikola PerosevicInternal Medicine, Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford, USA.
UConn Health · USSaint Francis Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polymyositis is an inflammatory disease that causes bilateral proximal muscle weakness; unlike dermatomyositis, it is not usually associated with malignancy. However, there are a handful of case reports documenting polymyositis in patients with lymphoma, breast, lung, and bladder cancer. Here we report a case of metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma disguised by presenting as polymyositis. Clinical presentation, laboratory values, muscle biopsy, and imaging were all diagnostic of paraneoplastic polymyositis. The patient has significantly improved in symptoms are receiving systemic steroids and pancreaticoduodenectomy.

Indexed as

cancer-associated myositismetastatic pancreatic adenocarcinomamyopathypancreatic cancerparaneoplastic myositispolymyositis

Identifiers

PMID35591892
PMCPMC9110078
OpenAlexW4280612514

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