COVID-19 and olfactory dysfunction - an ENT perspective to the current COVID-19 pandemic

• DOI: 10.5152/b-ent.2020.20127
• Publication Date: 2020-05-02T01:58:26Z
• Authors: Anneclaire V. Vro...; ; Anne-Sophie Eeckels; ; Vincent Van Rompaey; ; Dirk Vanden Abeele; ; Michele Schiappol...; ; Isam Alobid; ; Thomas Hummel; ; Clotilde De Dorlodot; ; Patrick Levie; ; Caroline Huart; ; Philippe Eloy; ; Olivier M. Vander...; ; Peter W. Hellings; ; Philippe Rombaux; ; Philippe Gevaert
• Keywords: SMELL; Science & Technology; Anosmia; respiratory tract infection; COVID-19; respiratory tract; infection; olfactory dysfunction; CORTICOSTEROID TREATMENT; 3. Good health; TASTE DISORDERS; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Otorhinolaryngology; Medicine and Health Sciences; hy7posmia; Human medicine; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; SYSTEM

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