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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The Omental Cake Sign in Pediatric Tuberculosis.

Giulia Fichera, Francesco Causin, Diego Cecchin, Chiara Giraudo

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Giulia FicheraUnit of Pediatric Radiology, University Hospital of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy.
Francesco CausinUnit of Pediatric Radiology, University Hospital of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6491-7027
Diego CecchinNuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padova, 35122 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7956-1924
Chiara GiraudoUnit of Advanced Clinical and Translational Imaging, Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padova, 35122 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0924-5883
University of Padua · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) images showing ascites and omental infiltration (omental cake sign) in a 12-year-old girl with abdominal pain and fever for two weeks. The presence of abdominal and mediastinal lymphadenopathy as well as of a pulmonary consolidation at CT suggested a diagnosis of tuberculosis which was then clinically confirmed. After treatment with ethambutol, rifampicin and isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and vitamin B6 (i.e., intensive treatment for two months followed by a continuation phase with two drugs regimen for four months) the patient fully recovered. Abdominal involvement is rare in children with tuberculosis but the presence of omental involvement together with ascites and enlarged lymph nodes at imaging may suggest this diagnosis and guide the clinicians to proper testing.

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abdominal tuberculosischildrenomental cake signradiology

Identifiers

PMID36359597
PMCPMC9689198
OpenAlexW4308770262

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