Altered olfactory acuity in the morbidly obese

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 967-969

  Richardson, Brynn E ^a,b   Vander Woude, Eric A ^a   Sudan, Ranjan ^a   Thompson, Jon S ^a   Leopold, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Morbid obesity; Obesity; Olfaction; Taste

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSE ORGAN; SMELLING; SMELLING DISORDER; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; OLFACTION DISORDERS; SMELL; SMOKING;

EID: 4143071411     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/0960892041719617     Document Type: Article

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