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Unilateral Olfactory Thresholds In A Chemosensory Clinic Population, Beverly Cowart, Edmund Pribitkin, David Rosen, Christopher Klock, Timothy Laflam
Unilateral Olfactory Thresholds In A Chemosensory Clinic Population, Beverly Cowart, Edmund Pribitkin, David Rosen, Christopher Klock, Timothy Laflam
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Poster presentation at 26th Annual Meeting of the Association of Chemoreception Sciences in Sarasota Florida, April 21-25, 2004.
INTRODUCTION
Because there is the possibility of unilateral loss of olfactory function or differential degrees of olfactory dysfunction in the two nostrils, unilateral tests of olfactory threshold sensitivity are routinely included in many chemosensory clinical test batteries to supplement bilateral tests (e.g., Cain et al., 1988; Hummel et al., 1997). Surprisingly, however, the results of unilateral testing in patients with chemosensory complaints have not been extensively reported. Thus, it is unclear how useful these additional measures are in characterizing individual patients.
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