Mild traumatic brain injury: evaluation of olfactory dysfunction and clinical-neurological characteristics
Objective: To evaluate olfactory function and clinical–neurological characteristics in a group of patients
with mild head trauma.
Methods: A total of 352 patients with MTBI underwent olfactory function evaluation. The site of head trauma,
loss of consciousness <20 min, memory loss, subjective presence or absence of olfaction and other clinical,
neurological and radiological aspects were evaluated and compared with the olfactory dysfunction.
Results: A total of 33.5% patients enrolled in the study had an olfactory dysfunction. Eighty-seven