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ArticleCureus2023

Cytomegalovirus (CMV)-Driven Transformation: An Uncommon Cause of a Central Nervous System Pseudotumor.

María Fernanda Tejada-Pineda, Irma Hoyo-Ulloa, Luis Alberto Ortega-Porcayo, Jesús J Baquera-Heredia, José Pablo Zárate-García, Samuel Romano-Feinholz, Juan Antonio Ponce-Gómez, Sergio M Jiménez

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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

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

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

8 authors.

María Fernanda Tejada-PinedaNeurological Surgery, ABC Medical Center, Mexico City, MEX.
Irma Hoyo-UlloaInfectious Disease, ABC Medical Center, Mexico City, MEX.
Luis Alberto Ortega-PorcayoNeurological Surgery, ABC Medical Center, Mexico City, MEX.
Jesús J Baquera-HerediaPathology, ABC Medical Center, Mexico City, MEX.
José Pablo Zárate-GarcíaNeurological Surgery, ABC Medical Center, Mexico City, MEX.
Samuel Romano-FeinholzNeurological Surgery, ABC Medical Center, Mexico City, MEX.
Juan Antonio Ponce-GómezNeurological Surgery, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía "Manuel Velasco Suarez", Mexico City, MEX.
Sergio M JiménezRadiosurgery Unit, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía "Manuel Velasco Suarez", Mexico City, MEX.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is an opportunistic virus that can cause life-threatening neurological diseases in immunocompromised individuals, particularly those with HIV/AIDS. In this case report, a patient presenting with left gait lateralization was found to have a ring-enhancing cerebral mass lesion that was attributed to CMV. To date, only eight similar cases have been documented. When evaluating patients with HIV/AIDS who have cerebral mass lesions, clinicians should keep CMV as a possible cause because prompt antiviral therapy may improve clinical outcomes.

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cmvcmv neurologic diseasehiv/aidsintracranial mass lesionring-enhancing lesion

Identifiers

PMID37767259
PMCPMC10520896

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