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ArticleAmerican journal of surgery2024

Very elevated parathyroid hormone levels in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism: Is it cancer?

Christopher Wu, Michelle Holland, Zhixing Song, Rongzhi Wang, Andrea Gillis, Polina Zmijewski, Brenessa Lindeman, Jessica Fazendin, Herbert Chen

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Article in American journal of surgery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Loss of Follow-up for Thyroid Nodules in Patients Living in Poverty.Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists · 2025
    Article
  2. Review
  3. Primary Hyperparathyroidism With Undetectable Intact Parathyroid Hormone.Clinical medicine insights. Endocrinology and diabetes · 2024
    Article
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

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christopher Wu
Michelle Holland
Zhixing Song
Rongzhi Wang
Andrea Gillis
Polina ZmijewskiDepartment of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Brenessa LindemanDepartment of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Jessica FazendinDepartment of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Herbert ChenDepartment of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. Electronic address: hchen@uabmc.edu.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Surgical Oncology Research Training ProgramT32CA229102 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI HERBERT CHEN · 2018 to 2026
$3.2M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA229102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Hyperparathyroidism, PrimaryNeoplasmsParathyroid HormoneHumansParathyroid Hormone

Identifiers

PMID38155074
PMCPMC11180976
OpenAlexW4390165778

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Registered trials

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