Contact endoscopic comparison of morphology of human fungiform papillae of healthy subjects and patients with transected chorda tympani nerve

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1216-1222

  Just, Tino ^a   Pau, Hans Wilhelm ^a   Witt, Martin ^b   Hummel, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chorda tympani nerve; Contact endoscopy; Electrogustometry; Fungiform papilla; Taste disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEATOMA; CHORDA TYMPANI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; ELECTROGUSTOMETRY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE EAR SURGERY; NERVE TRANSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASTE BUD; TONGUE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; CYTOLOGY; DYSGEUSIA; ENDOSCOPE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; TASTE ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; DYSGEUSIA; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; TASTE BUDS; TASTE THRESHOLD;

EID: 33747170907     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000224509.61099.29     Document Type: Article

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