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ArticleCureus2023

Streptococcus anginosus Lung Abscess With Complicated Parapneumonic Empyema.

Laura M Gonzalez, Lutfor Nessa, Raghavendra Sanivarapu, Barath Rangaswamy, Laura Rojo

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. World journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2024
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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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Laura M GonzalezInternal Medicine, Permian Basin Campus, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Odessa, USA.
Lutfor NessaInternal Medicine, Permian Basin Campus, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Odessa, USA.
Raghavendra SanivarapuPulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Permian Basin Campus, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Midland, USA.
Barath RangaswamyInternal Medicine, Permian Basin Campus, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Odessa, USA.
Laura RojoGeneral Medicine, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, COL.
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana · COTexas Tech University · USThe University of Texas of the Permian Basin · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 55-year-old female with hypertension presented to our facility with complicated pneumonia. She complained of progressively worsening shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. She was in her usual state of health except for an upper respiratory infection treated with oral antibiotics a month prior. At the presentation, she was febrile, tachycardic, and hypoxic on room air. A chest computed tomography (CT) showed near-complete opacification of the right lung, a cavitation with the fluid level in the right middle lobe, and moderate-to-large effusion. Broad-spectrum antibiotics were started. Sputum culture was later positive for methicillin-resistant

Indexed as

complicated community acquired pneumonia• lung abscessparapneumonic effusionstreptococcus anginosus groupthoracic empyema

Identifiers

PMID37187631
PMCPMC10181888
OpenAlexW4365137332

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Registered trials

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