Inflammatory obstruction of the olfactory clefts and olfactory loss in humans: a new syndrome?
In: ISSN: 0379-864X, 2007
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The first step in the olfactory perception is the activation by odorants of sensory neurones in the olfactory epithelium. In humans, this sensory epithelium is located at 2 narrow passages, the olfactory clefts, at the upper part of the nasal cavities. Little is known about the physiology of these clefts. We examined, in 34 patients, the impact of obstructed clefts upon detection and postlearning identification of 5 odorants. The location and extension of the obstructions were assessed using endoscopy, CT scans, and MRI. The inflammatory obstruction was usually bilateral, extending anteroposteriorly, and confined to the clefts, with no sign of obstruction or any inflammatory disease in the rest of the nasal cavities and sinuses. When tested with 5 odorants, these patients showed greatly impaired olfaction compared with a group of 73 normosmic subjects. The majority of these 34 patients had sensory deficits equivalent to that found in another group of 41 congenital anosmic patients, where inspection with MRI indicated the lack of olfactory bulbs. This study demonstrates that the olfactory clefts, in human, function as an entity that is different from other regions of the nasal cavity and is the target for local inflammatory events that are apparently not responding to corticoid and antibiotic treatments.
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Inflammatory obstruction of the olfactory clefts and olfactory loss in humans: a new syndrome?
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Trotier, Didier ; Bensimon, Jean Loup ; Herman, Philippe ; Tran Ba Huy, Patrice ; Døving, Kjell B ; Eloit, Corinne ; Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Réseaux Sensorimoteurs (LNRS) ; Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5) ; d'oto-rhino-laryngologie, Service ; Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Lariboisière-Fernand-Widal, APHP ; Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP) |
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Zeitschrift: | ISSN: 0379-864X, 2007 |
Veröffentlichung: | HAL CCSD ; Oxford University Press (OUP), 2007 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
DOI: | 10.1093/chemse/bjl057 |
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