Phantosmia

Phantosmia is the perception of smell in the absence of a corresponding source of irritation ( odorous substances ).

Phantosmia occurs after infection or as a result of trauma . The perception of smell is mostly perceived as unpleasant. It often regresses over the long term (years).

Phantosmia is a neurophysiological disease symptom , the cause of which has not yet been clarified. It is an olfactory (smell related) hallucination , i.e. a deceptive ( deceptive ) sensory perception without a cause of irritation.

literature

• Hanns Christian Hopf (Ed.): Diseases of the cranial nerves . Reference series Neurologie, Thieme Verlag, Munich, 2006, ISBN 978-3-13-140111-3 , p. 5.
• E. Biesinger, Heinrich Iro: Functional disorders and functional disorders . Volume 24 of ENT Practice Today, Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-20029-1 , p. 103.

Individual evidence

1. ^ S2 guideline for olfactory disorders (with algorithm) of the German Society for Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. In: AWMF online (as of 2007)
2. ^ Anatomy and physiology of the various chemoreceptive systems in the nasopharynx , review article on olfactory disorders from the Technical University of Dresden ( Memento from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ); last accessed on December 16, 2009.

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