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For some time I've wondered whether there exists in our literature a design for an international "rhinogram" that might address the issues of the nose in the same way that the audiogram addresses issues of the ears. It seems that a simple graphic chart representing the highlights of nasal function in an anatomic-physiologic manner (Figure 1) would provide patients and their physicians with meaningful information about the nose that would aid in treatment.

Figure appears in full text version. Proposed universal rhinogram.

Toward this end I presented this information at a meeting of the International Rhinologic Society and American Rhinologic Society, Mayo Clinic, under the title "The Nose: 2000 . . . and Beyond," in Washington, DC, between September 20 and September 23. Colleagues Eugene Kern, MD, George Facer, MD, and David A. Sherris MD, have urged me to forward this for consideration. My book in Hebrew, Your Nose: Don't BLOW It, in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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