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Record W2990862377 · doi:10.3171/2019.9.spine19915

Development of pulmonary endovascular metastases following vertebroplasty: case report

2019· article· en· W2990862377 on OpenAlexaff
J. R. Mercer, Andrew C. L. Lam, Roger P. Smith, Nazanin Fallah‐Rad, John Kavanagh

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Neurosurgery Spine · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicManagement of metastatic bone disease
Canadian institutionsPrincess Margaret Cancer CentreUniversity Health NetworkUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineRadiologyMalignancyPathologicalRadiological weaponPulmonary vesselsProstate cancerLungProstateCancerPathologyInternal medicinePulmonary hypertension

Abstract

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A 69-year-old man developed pulmonary metastases following vertebroplasties for pathological fractures of vertebrae T12-L4. The fractures developed due to spinal metastases from castrate-resistant prostate cancer. A CT scan performed 1 month prior indicated no evidence of pulmonary malignancy. However, CT scans performed 2 months after the vertebroplasties demonstrated intravascular pulmonary metastases distributed similarly to embolized polymethylmethacrylate. Vertebroplasty is a well-established procedure for symptomatic management of vertebral compression fractures. However, studies have demonstrated an increase in circulating tumor cells following vertebroplasties, theoretically increasing the risk of distant metastases. In this case, the chronicity and radiological findings suggest that the pulmonary intravascular metastases may have resulted from the vertebroplasties.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.010

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0090.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.252 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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