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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Approach to Imaging of Mediastinal Masses.

Jitesh Ahuja, Chad D Strange, Rishi Agrawal, Lauren T Erasmus, Mylene T Truong

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Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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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

22 citing papers 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.

Jitesh AhujaDepartment of Thoracic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Andeson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4446-9399
Chad D StrangeDepartment of Thoracic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Andeson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Rishi AgrawalDepartment of Thoracic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Andeson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Lauren T ErasmusDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada.ORCID 0009-0009-7908-5572
Mylene T TruongDepartment of Thoracic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Andeson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9795-529X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mediastinal masses present a diagnostic challenge due to their diverse etiologies. Accurate localization and internal characteristics of the mass are the two most important factors to narrow the differential diagnosis or provide a specific diagnosis. The International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) classification is the standard classification system used to localize mediastinal masses. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are the two most commonly used imaging modalities for characterization of the mediastinal masses.

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PMID37891992
PMCPMC10606219

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