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ArticleCureus2024

Polypropylene Mesh Infection From Surgical Site Infections Caused by Mycobacterium fortuitum.

Kota Tsuchiya, Nao Hayashi, Goh Ohji, Hiroto Terashi, Shunsuke Sakakibara

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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.

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1citing 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

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. Successful photodynamic therapy for infectious complications of abdominoplasty using mesh implants: a case report.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2025
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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.

Kota TsuchiyaDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, JPN.
Nao HayashiDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JPN.
Goh OhjiDivision of Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, JPN.
Hiroto TerashiDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JPN.
Shunsuke SakakibaraDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JPN.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This report highlights two cases of surgical site infections (SSIs) caused by

Indexed as

hernia meshmycobacterium fortuitumnon-tuberculous mycobacteriarapidly growing mycobacteriumsurgical site infection

Identifiers

PMID38939297
PMCPMC11210998

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