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ArticleContemporary clinical dentistry

Palatal Mucormycosis Masquerading as Bacterial and Fungal Osteomyelitis: A Rare Case Report.

Shalu Rai, Deepankar Misra, Akansha Misra, Ankit Jain, Prerna Jain, Ayush Dhawan

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Article in Contemporary clinical dentistry. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Minimizing the Recurrence Rate in Covid Associated Mucormycosis: Our Experience in 500 Patients.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024
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  2. Oral Manifestations of Mucormycosis: A Systematic Review.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
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  5. Recurrent mucormycosis - Better understanding of treatment and management.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2020
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  8. Histopathological significance of necrosis in oral lesions: A review.Journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology : JOMFP
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shalu RaiDepartment of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Institute of Dental Studies and Technologies, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Deepankar MisraDepartment of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Institute of Dental Studies and Technologies, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Akansha MisraDepartment of Oral Pathology, Institute of Dental Studies and Technologies, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Ankit JainDepartment of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Institute of Dental Studies and Technologies, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Prerna JainDepartment of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Institute of Dental Studies and Technologies, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Ayush DhawanDepartment of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Institute of Dental Studies and Technologies, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Kamineni Institute of Dental Sciences · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mucormycosis is an acute, fulminating, fungal disease that frequently involves oral, cranial, and facial structures. It is an opportunistic fatal infection which occurs in debilitating and immunosuppressive states. This report documents a rare case of localized maxillary mucormycosis in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes, with emphasis on early and prompt diagnosis of the same.

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Diagnosismucormycosispalatal ulceration

Identifiers

PMID29875579
PMCPMC5968701
OpenAlexW2800551688

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