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ArticleCureus2023

Neck Abscess Due to Pocket Shot: Is It Just the Tip of the Iceberg?

Dafni Kollia, Panagiota Voukelatou, Andreas Kyvetos, Pantelitsa Elissaiou, Ioannis Vrettos

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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 1 paper.

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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

The trial behind it

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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.

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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.

Dafni Kollia2nd Department of Internal Medicine, General and Oncology Hospital of Kifissia "Agioi Anargyroi", Athens, GRC.
Panagiota Voukelatou2nd Department of Internal Medicine, General and Oncology Hospital of Kifissia "Agioi Anargyroi", Athens, GRC.
Andreas Kyvetos2nd Department of Internal Medicine, General and Oncology Hospital of Kifissia "Agioi Anargyroi", Athens, GRC.
Pantelitsa Elissaiou2nd Department of Internal Medicine, General and Oncology Hospital of Kifissia "Agioi Anargyroi", Athens, GRC.
Ioannis Vrettos2nd Department of Internal Medicine, General and Oncology Hospital of Kifissia "Agioi Anargyroi", Athens, GRC.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 45-year-old Caucasian male presented to the emergency department for pain and swelling on the left side of his neck for the past 10 days. His medical history revealed that he was an intravenous (IV) drug abuser. Physical examination demonstrated a 5×5 cm red, swollen bump with a positive fluctuation on the left supraclavicular area concerning for an abscess. Fluid aspiration from the abscess was performed, and three sets of blood cultures were obtained, which later all came back positive for methicillin-resistant

Indexed as

bacterial pyomyositisintravenous drug abusersmrsaneck abscesspocket shot

Identifiers

PMID37554596
PMCPMC10404912

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