| Literature DB >> 3245805 |
M Yamagishi1, S Hasegawa, Y Nakano.
Abstract
To determine objectively the degree of olfactory disturbance, we biopsied the olfactory mucosa from patients who complained of anosmia. The olfactory disturbances in this study were caused by choanal atresia, chronic sinusitis, viral inflammation, and head trauma, as well as by congenital and idiopathic anosmia. The biopsy specimens were examined by light microscopy and the degree of mucosal degeneration present was classified according to five grades. The clinical courses of the patients studied paralleled the changes found in the olfactory mucosa.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID: 3245805 DOI: 10.1007/bf00464640
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arch Otorhinolaryngol ISSN: 0302-9530