The combined olfactory test in a Chinese population.

Objective: To establish an olfactory test in the Hong Kong Chinese population.

Study Design: Prospective analysis of the results of a combined olfactory test (COT) for patients with olfactory dysfunction and for normal subjects attending a secondary and tertiary ear, nose and throat centre.

Method: Our COT was based on and modified from the Connecticut Chemosensory Research Centre test.

Esophageal perforation and neck abscess from ingested foreign bodies: treatment and outcomes.

Over a 6.5-year period, 5,848 patients who had ingested a foreign body were admitted to the ENT unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong. Potentially serious complications developed in 12 patients (0.