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CHARLES P. KIMMELMAN, MD
New York

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1988;114(5):487.

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At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery in Chicago, Allen Seiden, MD, and coworkers at the University of Cincinnati Taste and Smell Center presented their experience in handling patients with chemosensory disorders. They have currently evaluated over 100 patients, and this report summarizes their first 67 individuals. They used a battery of tests to assess olfaction, including the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Smell Identification Test, a microencapsulated "scratch-and-sniff" test of olfactory acuity, as well as the Butanol Threshold and Odor Identification Test, which was developed at the University of Connecticut Health Center (Farmington). Gustatory evaluation was performed with the Suprathreshold Scaling Test using sweet, sour, salty, and bitter stimuli.

The investigators found that 84% of their patients had an olfactory deficit. Two thirds of these had anosmia and one third, hyposmia. Thirty-three percent of the patients had a measurable loss of taste function, but only . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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