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Case Reports
. 2020 Dec:139:110469.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2020.110469. Epub 2020 Oct 24.

Olfactory bulb magnetic resonance imaging in SARS-CoV-2-induced anosmia in pediatric cases

Nevin Hatipoglu  1 , Zahide Mine Yazici  2 , Figen Palabiyik  3 , Filiz Gulustan  4 , Ibrahim Sayin  4
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Olfactory bulb magnetic resonance imaging in SARS-CoV-2-induced anosmia in pediatric cases

Nevin Hatipoglu et al. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

In this paper, we report three cases of pediatric patients with COVID-19 infection who presented with different symptoms and also anosmia and/or ageusia. The common feature of these 3 patients is that the smell and / or taste disorder developed without nasal symptoms such as nasal congestion, nasal obstruction or rhinorrhea. Although 40% of anosmies contains viral etiologies, COVID- 19 differs from other viral anosmies by the lack of nasal congestion and runny nose. Coronaviruses could invade the brain via the cribriform plate close to the olfactory bulb and the olfactory epithelium. We may expect some structural changes in the olfactory bulb so we evaluated our patient with cranial imaging.

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Fig. 1a/b
Fig. 1a/b
No signal change or contrast material uptake was observed in the olfactory bulb in coronal CISS (a) and contrast-enhanced coronal T1A sections (b) performed in a 13-year-old girl.
Fig. 2a/b
Fig. 2a/b
No pathology was found in the olfactory bulb in the coronal CISS (a) and contrast-enhanced coronal T1A sections (b) of a 13-year-old male patient.
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
In a 13-year-old male patient, a consolidation area consistent with pneumonia was observed in the posterior segment of the left upper lobe of the left lung with air bronchograms.
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