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. 2020 Oct 20;173(8):672-675.
doi: 10.7326/M20-2428. Epub 2020 May 26.

Loss of Smell and Taste in 2013 European Patients With Mild to Moderate COVID-19

Jerome R Lechien  1 , Carlos M Chiesa-Estomba  2 , Stephane Hans  3 , Maria Rosaria Barillari  4 , Lionel Jouffe  5 , Sven Saussez  6
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Loss of Smell and Taste in 2013 European Patients With Mild to Moderate COVID-19

Jerome R Lechien et al. Ann Intern Med. .
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Flow chart of the study. * The diagnostic tests of ambulatory and hospitalized patients were centralized in hospital laboratories, allowing identification of patients with positive results. † For hospitalized patients, physicians entered information directly on an online questionnaire; home-managed (quarantined) patients completed the questionnaire at home. ‡ Among the patients with total loss of smell, those who came from Hainaut, Belgium, were contacted to be included in a second study to objectively assess the olfactory disorder. The following exclusion criteria were considered: history of nasal surgery, history of head or neck trauma, history of chronic rhinosinusitis or polyposis, degenerative neurologic disease, and history of chronic loss of smell before the epidemic. Patients who did not respond to the questionnaire were excluded (n = 7).
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