Causes of Anosmia

• Nose

  • • • Rhinosinusitis, rhinitis, nasal polyps (most common)

      • Head trauma (damage olfactory nerve)

      • Age related

      • Covid

• Extra Nose

  • • • Neurodegenerative 

        • • • Parkinson's 

            • Lewy body dementia

            • Multisystem atrophy

            • Alzheimer's Disease

      • Genetic

        • • • Kallman's syndrome (in MCQs- v much Kallman's > Turner's in a pt with anosmia)

            • Turner's syndrome

      • Pagets

Great to know for MCQs!

Page written in 2024.