Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39980581›Full record

ArticleRespirology case reports2025

Low Grade Pulmonary Spindle Cell Neoplasm in a 30-Year-Old Asymptomatic Female: A Diagnostic Dilemma: A Case Report.

Jerica Eliesa Juarez, Albert Lim Rafanan, Matthew Go Yap

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Respirology case reports, 2025. 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

3 authors.

Jerica Eliesa JuarezDepartment of Internal Medicine Chong Hua Hospital, Don Mariano Cui Street Fuente, Osmena Cebu City Philippines.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0531-0265
Albert Lim RafananSection of Adult Pulmonology Internal Medicine Chong Hua Hospital, Don Mariano Cui Street Fuente, Osmena Cebu City Philippines.
Matthew Go YapSection of Medical Oncology Internal Medicine Chong Hua Hospital, Don Mariano Cui Street Fuente, Osmena Cebu City Philippines.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulmonary spindle cell carcinoma is a highly malignant rare variant of sarcomatoid lung carcinomas. This is a case of an asymptomatic 30-year-old Filipino female with an incidental finding of pulmonary nodules on chest x-ray. Patient was diagnosed with Wilms tumor at the age of 2, S/P nephrectomy with no documented recurrence thereafter. Computed tomography (CT) chest scan showed non-calcified fat density nodules in her right upper, middle and lower lobe. A positron emission tomography (PET) CT scan identified lobulated pulmonary mass with low-grade metabolic activity. Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery with wedge resection of the right lung was done. Final biopsy noted fibroepithelial lesions in the parenchyma which composed of bland spindle cells. ER, SMA, desmin, and caldesmon were diffusely positive consistent with a low-grade spindle cell neoplasm. Genetic testing showed CTNNB1 S45F subclonal mutations. No chemotherapy nor radiotherapy were done. Repeat PET CT of the whole body showed a decrease in size of the mass.

Indexed as

genotypelow‐gradepulmonary spindle cell carcinomasarcomatoid cancer

Identifiers

PMID39980581
PMCPMC11840237

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
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.