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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3768</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.131129</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Role of Computed Tomography of the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses in COVID-19 Patients with Anosmia: Our Experiences at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>SK</surname><given-names>Swain</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S</surname><given-names>Das</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>D</surname><given-names>Kar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>SR</surname><given-names>Das</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>4</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>1)</volume><issue/><fpage>117</fpage><lpage>121</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Olfactory dysfunction is a unique clinical presentation reported among coronavirus diseases 2019(COVID-19) patients. The exact pathophysiology for olfactory dysfunction in COVID-19 infections is poorly understood. Objective: To evaluate the anosmia in COVID-19 infections with help of computed tomography (CT) scan of the nose and paranasal sinus. Methods: This prospective study was performed in COVID-19 patients with symptoms of olfactory dysfunction. We evaluated the conductive etiologies of the anosmia with help of the CT scan of the nose and paranasal sinuses. Results: There were 62 patients with anosmia with COVID-19 infections included in this study. The age ranges of the study patients were 18 to 76 years with a mean age of 46.3__ampersandsignplusmn;14 years. Complete anosmia was found in 67.74% of cases and 82.25% of cases presented with sudden onset of olfactory dysfunction. Gustatory dysfunction or dysgeusia was found in 51.61% of the cases. There were no pathological lesions of the olfactory cleft in the CT scan of the nose and paranasal sinuses. Conclusion: Obstructive or conductive pathology in the sinonasal tract does not play a significant role in causing the anosmia in COVID-19 patients. We did not find much sinonasal pathology in the CT scan of the nose and paranasal sinuses in COVID-19 patients with anosmia.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Computed tomography</kwd><kwd> Anosmia</kwd><kwd> COVID-19 patients</kwd><kwd> Olfactory cleft</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
