Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38707071›Full record

ArticleCureus2024

Primary Mediastinal Dysgerminoma: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Meryem El Jarroudi, Fatima Rezzoug, Soufia El Ouardani, Ouissam Al Jarroudi, Sami Aziz Brahmi, Said Afqir

Abstract readCase Reports
In one paragraph

Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

6 authors.

Meryem El JarroudiMedical Oncology, University Hospital Center Mohammed VI, Oujda, MAR.
Fatima RezzougMedical Oncology, University Hospital Center Mohammed VI, Oujda, MAR.
Soufia El OuardaniMedical Oncology, University Hospital Center Mohammed VI, Oujda, MAR.
Ouissam Al JarroudiMedical Oncology, University Hospital Center Mohammed VI, Oujda, MAR.
Sami Aziz BrahmiMedical Oncology, University Hospital Center Mohammed VI, Oujda, MAR.
Said AfqirMedical Oncology, University Hospital Center Mohammed VI, Oujda, MAR.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Germ cell tumors are malignant tumors that mostly develop in the gonads. Extragonadal localization is rare and may affect the mediastinal and sacrococcygeal regions. Mediastinal seminoma is a malignant germ cell tumor of the mediastinum. The tumor typically occurs in the anterosuperior mediastinum in males and often has a very slow growth pattern and limited potential for metastasis. And symptoms are not very characteristic, with many patients being asymptomatic and the tumor being discovered incidentally. In this paper, we report the case of a 26-year-old patient admitted for the management of a large anterosuperior mediastinal tumor encasing the vital structures of the mediastinum.

Indexed as

chemotherapydysgerminomamediastinumprognostic risk factorsradiotherapy (rt)

Identifiers

PMID38707071
PMCPMC11066817

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.