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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2003

Bipolaris spicifera causes fungus balls of the sinuses and triggers polypoid chronic rhinosinusitis in an immunocompetent patient.

Walter Buzina, Hannes Braun, Kerstin Schimpl, Heinz Stammberger

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
    Review
  2. The first case of cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused byExperimental and therapeutic medicine · 2017
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Walter BuzinaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical School, Graz, Austria. walter.buzina@uni-graz.at
Hannes Braun
Kerstin Schimpl
Heinz Stammberger
Medical University of Graz · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the rare case of a 19-year-old immunocompetent male suffering both from fungus balls of the sinuses and from chronic rhinosinusitis with massive polyposis. Endoscopic sinus surgery revealed grayish brown necrotic masses embedded in viscous eosinophilic mucus. Inoculated onto petri dishes, these masses as well as the mucus grew a dark pigmented fungus, which was identified as Bipolaris spicifera.

Indexed as

AdultAscomycotaChronic DiseaseHumansImmunocompetenceMaleMycosesParanasal SinusesPolypsRhinitisSinusitis

Identifiers

PMID14532251
PMCPMC254347
OpenAlexW2035592051

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Registered trials

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