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ArticleCureus2024

Labial Necrotizing Fasciitis Caused by Pelvic Eggerthia catenaformis Infection.

Felix Yang, Mira Malavia, Ashna Chali, Jared Keeler

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Felix YangDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA.
Mira MalaviaDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA.
Ashna ChaliDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA.
Jared KeelerDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA.
University of Missouri–Kansas City · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A patient with comorbid diabetes mellitus, obesity, and hypertension acutely presented to the ED due to labial cellulitis with rapidly progressing symptoms of systemic inflammation. Clinical examination revealed fever and groin pain that was tender to palpation. Initial contrast-enhanced CT scans showed labial cellulitis extending to the inguinal canal, with later CT imaging findings of subcutaneous air indicative of necrotizing fasciitis (NF). Antimicrobial therapy was initiated empirically and later tailored to culture antibiogram. The patient underwent acute surgical abscess drainage and tissue debridement but was transferred to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) due to postoperative blood loss and hypotension. Two additional surgical procedures were needed before sufficient drainage was achieved, and

Indexed as

abscesscase reportcellulitisinfectionnecrotizing fasciitisperioperative outcomessurgical debridement

Identifiers

PMID38449955
PMCPMC10916910
OpenAlexW4391542218

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