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Functional Olfactory Nerve Regeneration Demonstrated by Thallium-201 Olfacto-Scintigraphy in Patients with Traumatic Anosmia: A Case Report

Head trauma is one of the most common etiologies of olfactory dysfunction. It is difficult to use either the olfactory function test or magnetic resonance imaging to directly assess the course of damage to olfactory nerves. Thallium-201 ((201)Tl) olfacto-scintigraphy has been shown to be an able mea...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Rong-San, Lu, Yu-Yu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31827962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1069741
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description Head trauma is one of the most common etiologies of olfactory dysfunction. It is difficult to use either the olfactory function test or magnetic resonance imaging to directly assess the course of damage to olfactory nerves. Thallium-201 ((201)Tl) olfacto-scintigraphy has been shown to be an able means for objectively assessing the olfactory nerve transport function. It is expected to be used to evaluate olfactory nerve regeneration after damage to the olfactory nerves. However, no such result has been reported. We present a patient who lost his olfactory function after experiencing head trauma. When his olfactory function remained anosmic, a (201)Tl olfacto-scintigraphy showed no migration of (201)Tl from the nasal mucosa to the olfactory bulb. After treatment with medicines and olfactory training, his olfactory function improved. A second (201)Tl olfacto-scintigraphy showed an increased migration of (201)Tl from the nasal mucosa to the olfactory bulb.
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spelling pubmed-68817712019-12-11 Functional Olfactory Nerve Regeneration Demonstrated by Thallium-201 Olfacto-Scintigraphy in Patients with Traumatic Anosmia: A Case Report Jiang, Rong-San Lu, Yu-Yu Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Head trauma is one of the most common etiologies of olfactory dysfunction. It is difficult to use either the olfactory function test or magnetic resonance imaging to directly assess the course of damage to olfactory nerves. Thallium-201 ((201)Tl) olfacto-scintigraphy has been shown to be an able means for objectively assessing the olfactory nerve transport function. It is expected to be used to evaluate olfactory nerve regeneration after damage to the olfactory nerves. However, no such result has been reported. We present a patient who lost his olfactory function after experiencing head trauma. When his olfactory function remained anosmic, a (201)Tl olfacto-scintigraphy showed no migration of (201)Tl from the nasal mucosa to the olfactory bulb. After treatment with medicines and olfactory training, his olfactory function improved. A second (201)Tl olfacto-scintigraphy showed an increased migration of (201)Tl from the nasal mucosa to the olfactory bulb. Hindawi 2019-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6881771/ /pubmed/31827962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1069741 Text en Copyright © 2019 Rong-San Jiang and Yu-Yu Lu. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Jiang, Rong-San
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Functional Olfactory Nerve Regeneration Demonstrated by Thallium-201 Olfacto-Scintigraphy in Patients with Traumatic Anosmia: A Case Report
title Functional Olfactory Nerve Regeneration Demonstrated by Thallium-201 Olfacto-Scintigraphy in Patients with Traumatic Anosmia: A Case Report
title_full Functional Olfactory Nerve Regeneration Demonstrated by Thallium-201 Olfacto-Scintigraphy in Patients with Traumatic Anosmia: A Case Report
title_fullStr Functional Olfactory Nerve Regeneration Demonstrated by Thallium-201 Olfacto-Scintigraphy in Patients with Traumatic Anosmia: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Functional Olfactory Nerve Regeneration Demonstrated by Thallium-201 Olfacto-Scintigraphy in Patients with Traumatic Anosmia: A Case Report
title_short Functional Olfactory Nerve Regeneration Demonstrated by Thallium-201 Olfacto-Scintigraphy in Patients with Traumatic Anosmia: A Case Report
title_sort functional olfactory nerve regeneration demonstrated by thallium-201 olfacto-scintigraphy in patients with traumatic anosmia: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31827962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1069741
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