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ArticleProceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center)2024

Tumefactive multiple sclerosis.

Bünyamin Tosunoğlu, Burcu Gökçe Çokal, Hafize Nalan Güneş, Nilay Kaya, Tahir Kurtuluş Yoldaş

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Article in Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center), 2024. 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 31% 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, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Tumefactive demyelination in older adults: A scoping review of published cases.Multiple sclerosis journal - experimental, translational and clinical
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Bünyamin TosunoğluDepartment of Neurology, Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6270-9715
Burcu Gökçe ÇokalDepartment of Neurology, Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Hafize Nalan GüneşDepartment of Neurology, Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Nilay KayaDepartment of Neurology, Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Tahir Kurtuluş YoldaşDepartment of Neurology, Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Ministry of Health · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumefactive multiple sclerosis (MS) is a subtype of atypical and rare MS that presents with tumor-like lesions in the central nervous system. The lesions may demonstrate a mass effect, edema, with ring enhancement. They can be mistaken for brain tumors or brain abscesses radiologically and clinically. Here we describe an instructive case of a 55-year-old woman with tumefactive MS who presented with occasional numbness in her right arm and leg, headache, thought confusion, and blurred vision for 2 years.

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Abscessdemyelinatingtumor

Identifiers

PMID38343475
PMCPMC10857543
OpenAlexW4390499195

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.