Assessing olfactory function in laryngectomees using the sniffin’sticks test battery and chemosensory evoked potentials

Laryngoscope

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 303-

  Welge Luessen, Antje ^a   Kobal, Gerd ^b   Wolfensberger, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

chemosensory evoked potentials; Laryngectomy; olfactory function; Sniffin Sticks

Indexed keywords

ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SMELLING; SNIFFING;

ADULT; AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; OLFACTORY NERVE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0033967888     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200002010-00022     Document Type: Article

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