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- Title
Is Olfactory Function Affected by Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Skull Base Surgery?
- Authors
Lonergan, Ashley R.; St. John, Maie A.; Kuan, Edward C.
- Abstract
LITERATURE REVIEW A prospective double-blinded randomized control trial was conducted in 2020 by Chou et al. to investigate postoperative olfaction among 31 patients undergoing endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery with or without NSF harvest.1 Half of these patients underwent skull base reconstruction using an NSF; of these, eight were randomized to flap harvest from the dominant olfaction side and the remaining six were randomized to the olfaction nondominant side. Similarly, Chaaban et al. prospectively studied 18 patients undergoing endoscopic transnasal pituitary surgery.2 UPSIT scores preoperatively and 3 to 4 months postoperatively were not statistically significant, including those patients who underwent skull base reconstruction using NSFs.
- Publication
Laryngoscope, 2022, Vol 132, Issue 7, p1329
- ISSN
0023-852X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/lary.29854