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ArticleCureus2026

Hidden in Plain Sight: Nocardia farcinica Posterior Shoulder Abscess Temporally Associated With Sports Massage in an Immunocompetent Host.

Babar A Rashid, Ketan Kantamaneni, Mohamed Hashem

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Article in Cureus, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

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.

Babar A RashidDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedics, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Blackburn, GBR.
Ketan KantamaneniDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedics, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Blackburn, GBR.
Mohamed HashemDepartment of Orthopedics, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Blackburn, GBR.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

immunocompetent hostmusculoskeletal nocardiosisnocardia farcinicashoulder abscesssoft tissue infectionsports massagesurgical drainage

Identifiers

PMID42670473
PMCPMC13526206

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Registered trials

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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.