Evaluation of the prevalence and specificities of asymptomatic paranasal sinus aspergillosis: retrospective study of 59 cases.

Study Objectives: To calculate the prevalence of asymptomatic localized paranasal sinus aspergillosis (or fungus ball) in the general population and to compare asymptomatic and symptomatic fungus balls (FB) in order to determine their specificities.

Material And Method: Retrospective study including 59 patients operated for FB between 2006 and 2011 in a single unit. Patients were divided into two groups: asymptomatic patients (group 1, n=10), and symptomatic patients (group 2, n=49).

[Home accidents associated with anosmia].

Objective: To assess the risk of home accidents related to severe hyposmia.

Methods: A questionnaire, completed by 57 hyposmic patients and 49 control subjects with a normal sense of smell, asked about four specific types of olfactory-related home accidents: undetected fires, undetected gas leaks, consumption of spoiled food, and incidents of food burning. Level of olfactory function was determined by olfactory testing (Biolfa).

Olfactory evaluation in children: application to the CHARGE syndrome.

Objective: To find an efficient tool for testing olfactory function in children and use it to investigate a group of children with CHARGE (coloboma, congenital heart disease, choanal atresia, mental and growth retardation, genital anomalies, and ear malformations and hearing loss) syndrome.

Methods: We adapted for children an olfaction test that had just been validated in an adult French population and investigated a control group of 25 healthy children aged 6 to 13 years. We then tested the olfactory capacity of a group of 14 children with CHARGE syndrome, aged 6 to 18 years.

Distorted odorant perception: analysis of a series of 56 patients with parosmia.

Objective: To characterize the self-reported olfactory and gustatory symptoms, olfactory function, and causes in parosmia.

Design: Assessment of olfactory symptoms and function in patients with a chief complaint of parosmia.

Setting: A university hospital clinic and research facility.