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ArticleJournal of scleroderma and related disorders2023

Very Early Diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis: Deciphering the heterogeneity of systemic sclerosis in the very early stages of the disease.

Alain Lescoat

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Article in Journal of scleroderma and related disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Sclerosing diseases of the skin.Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft = Journal of the German Society of Dermatology : JDDG · 2025
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alain LescoatDepartment of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, CHU Rennes, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2081-8558
Inserm · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis has been a major challenge for the scleroderma community in the past 50 years. The recent publication of the predictive value of the VEDOSS (Very Early Diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis) criteria in the

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anti-centromere antibodiesanti-nuclear antibodiesanti-topoisomerase antibodiesdiagnosispreventive medicineSystemic sclerosis

Identifiers

PMID36743816
PMCPMC9896197
OpenAlexW4304175760

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Registered trials

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