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ArticleJournal of bone and joint infection2023

Pyogenic spinal infections warrant a total spine MRI.

Cristian Balcescu, Khalid Odeh, Alexander Rosinski, Brandon Nudelman, Adam Schlauch, Ishan Shah, Victor Ungurean, Priya Prasad, Jeremi Leasure, Flora Stepansky and 2 more

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Article in Journal of bone and joint infection, 2023. 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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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

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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.

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  3. Diagnostic imaging confusion in infectious spondylitis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025
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  5. Imaging assessment of spine infection.Skeletal radiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Cristian BalcescuSan Francisco Orthopaedic Residency Program, St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Khalid OdehSan Francisco Orthopaedic Residency Program, St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Alexander RosinskiSan Francisco Orthopaedic Residency Program, St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Brandon NudelmanSan Francisco Orthopaedic Residency Program, St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Adam SchlauchSan Francisco Orthopaedic Residency Program, St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Ishan ShahSan Francisco Orthopaedic Residency Program, St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Victor UngureanThe Taylor Collaboration, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Priya PrasadDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Jeremi LeasureThe Taylor Collaboration, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Flora StepanskyDepartment of Radiology, St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Amit PipleThe Taylor Collaboration, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Dimitriy KondrashovSpine Center, St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID36687464
PMCPMC9850241

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