Usefulness of the odor stick identification test for Japanese patients with olfactory dysfunction

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 565-571

  Hashimoto, Yoshiteru ^a   Fukazawa, Keijiro ^a   Fujii, Megumi ^b   Takayasu, Sadamu ^a   Muto, Toshihiko ^c   Saito, Sachiko ^d   Takashima, Yasuhiro ^e   Sakagami, Masafumi ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Meiwa General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Hyogo Prefectural Kaibara Hospital   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e TAKASAGO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross cultural smell identification test; Odor stick identification test; Olfactory disturbance; T T olfactometry; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SMELLING DISORDER; TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 16644376725     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh061     Document Type: Article

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