Taste and Smell in Disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 308, Issue 21, 1983, Pages 1275-1279

  Epstein, Franklin H ^a   Schiffman, Susan S ^b  

^a Duke Medical Center ^*

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETIOLOGY; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; SHORT SURVEY; TASTE;

HUMAN; OLFACTION DISORDERS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; SMELL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TASTE DISORDERS;

EID: 0020538664     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198305263082107     Document Type: Review

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