Taste Disturbance and Its Recovery after Middle Ear Surgery
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Younger patients have a higher rate of recovery of taste function after middle ear surgery.
BACKGROUND Although the chorda tympani nerve (CTN) is frequently damaged during tympanoplasty, little attention has been given to the patients' symptoms and taste function. OBJECTIVE To investigate patients' symptoms and the functional recovery of taste after surgery using electrogustometry (EGM). DESIGN Prospective study. PATIENTS Analysis of 163 ears of 156 patients who underwent middle...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chemical Senses
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0379-864X,1464-3553
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh193