Quality of life in patients with smell loss due to upper respiratory tract infections

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 504-510

  Toledano, Adolfo ^a,b   Rodríguez, Gil ^a   Martín, Ana María ^a   Onrubia, Tomás ^c   Galindo, Néstor ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RUBER INTERNACIONAL   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE FUENLABRADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINOSINUSITIS DISABILITY INDEX; VIRAL UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLFACTION DISORDERS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINUSITIS; SMELL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80055033739     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: 1532818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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