Euosmia: A rare form of parosmia

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Beitragende

Abstract

The nature of qualitative olfactory disorders such as phantosmia and parosmia is a matter of debate. Parosmia and phantosmia mainly occur in combination with post-traumatic or post-infectious olfactory loss. Rare causes of these disorders such as brain tumors, side-effects of drugs, paraneoplastic syndromes, psychiatric disorders or intracerebral haemorrhage have been reported. Parosmias are distorted sensations of smell elicited by an odor, whereas phantosmias persist permanently or occur without the presence of an odor source. Phantosmias differ widely in terms of their nature. In contrast, parosmias always seem to be unpleasant. We report the case of a female with post-infectious hyposmia who reported a pleasant parosmia to selected odorants. We have called this rare clinical presentation euosmia.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)101-103
Seitenumfang3
FachzeitschriftActa Oto-Laryngologica
Jahrgang126
Ausgabenummer1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Jan. 2006
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

WOS 000233618400016
PubMed 16308262
Scopus 28844493686
ORCID /0000-0001-9713-0183/work/146645666

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Euosmia, Parosmia, Phantosmia