A new clinical olfactory function test: Cross-cultural influence

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 331-336

  Kobayashi, Masayoshi ^a,b,c   Reiter, Evan R ^a   DiNardo, Laurence J ^a   Costanzo, Richard M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SMELLING; SMELLING DISORDER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMELL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247333314     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.133.4.331     Document Type: Article

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