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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2014

Indications for surgery in refractory rhinitis.

Arthur W Wu, Jonathan Y Ting

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Imaging anatomy of the vidian canal and its clinical significance.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Arthur W WuDepartment of Otolaryngology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8631 W. 3rd Street, Suite 640E, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA, arthurwu@gmail.com.
Jonathan Y Ting
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · USIndiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical treatment of chronic rhinitis is successful in a majority of patients, but there is a still large population of patients who fail medical therapy. Surgical treatment for patients with severe persistent allergic rhinitis is not a new solution, but recent advancements in technology and surgical technique have made surgery safer and more effective. There is no gold standard of treatment in patients with refractory rhinitis, and surgeons may select a variety of procedures and techniques based on a patient's anatomy, severity of disease, and comorbidities. Unfortunately, there are currently few large prospective, randomized controlled trials evaluating surgical treatments, and no study to date has compared immunotherapy to surgical intervention. Therefore, there is no hard and fast rule as to when to pursue surgical intervention after initial medical therapy has failed.

Indexed as

Catheter AblationHumansImmunotherapyNasal MucosaRecurrenceRhinitisSalvage Therapy

Identifiers

PMID24408537
OpenAlexW2002720091

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Registered trials

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