Olfaction-associated quality of life in chronic rhinosinusitis: Adaptation and validation of an olfaction-specific questionnaire

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1450-1454

  Simopoulos, Efthimios ^a   Katotomichelakis, Michael ^a   Gouveris, Haralampos ^a   Tripsianis, Gregory ^a   Livaditis, Miltos ^a   Danielides, Vassilios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

anosmia; chronic rhinosinusitis; hyposmia; Olfaction; quality of life; questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HYPOSMIA; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; QUESTIONNAIRE OF OLFACTORY DISORDER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; SMELLING; SNIFFIN STICK TEST; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; ZUNG ANXIETY SCALE;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OLFACTION DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; SMELL;

EID: 84862843439     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23349     Document Type: Article

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