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Giant fecaloma in a 12-year-old-boy: a case report

Overview of attention for article published in Cases Journal, February 2009
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1 Facebook page
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5 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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23 Dimensions

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Title
Giant fecaloma in a 12-year-old-boy: a case report
Published in
Cases Journal, February 2009
DOI 10.1186/1757-1626-2-127
Pubmed ID
Authors

Juan D Garisto, Luis Campillo, Errol Edwards, Mireya Harbour, Rufino Ermocilla

Abstract

Fecaloma is a mass of feces accumulated that is much harder in consistency than a fecal impactation. The aim of this report is to give a brief review of this entity and discuss the treatment options for these cases.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 22 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 22 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 6 27%
Student > Postgraduate 3 14%
Student > Bachelor 3 14%
Unspecified 1 5%
Librarian 1 5%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 6 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 45%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 9%
Unspecified 1 5%
Neuroscience 1 5%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 July 2023.
All research outputs
#7,433,667
of 23,383,275 outputs
Outputs from Cases Journal
#68
of 253 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,296
of 172,744 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cases Journal
#17
of 61 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,383,275 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 253 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 61 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.