ArticleCureus2024
Dysphagia in an 80-Year-Old Woman: A Rare Case of Metastatic Melanoma Presenting in the Small Bowel.
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.
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.
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.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Disseminated Melanoma with Extensive Gastrointestinal Tract Involvement: Incidental Detection of Metastases on Upper Endoscopy.Kansas journal of medicineArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This report discusses the case of an 80-year-old female presenting with non-specific gastrointestinal symptoms and who was ultimately diagnosed as having metastatic melanoma of the jejunum. Notably, on admission, the patient had failed to report a past medical history of melanoma on her back a few years prior, and this significantly impacted the diagnostic process. This case highlights the challenges in diagnosing metastatic melanoma. It adds to the literature by underscoring the rarity and diagnostic complexity of this condition, which in this particular case presented as a jejunal mass.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.