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Document ID (ISN)37992
CIS number 82-1114
Year 1982
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Regnier V.
Title Anosmia of occupational origin
Original title Les anosmies d'origine professionnelle [in French]
Bibliographic information Université de Paris VI, Faculté de médecine Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France, 1982. 71p. 70 ref.
Abstract This medical thesis covers: anatomical and physiological review of the sense of smell, means of investigation and main causes of impaired sense of smell, survey of forms of persistent loss of smell of post-traumatic occupational origin (following a trauma to the face) or due to toxic exposure (heavy metals, solvent, sugar dust, flour, tobacco and wood). Analysis of causes of partial loss of sense of smell due to olfactory fatigue; difficulties of differential diagnosis and medicolegal aspects. The occupational physician's job is to detect, at the pre-employment medical examinations, sense of smell disorders and "spontaneous olfactory scotomas", and to monitor olfactory function in workers exposed to substances suspected of toxicity.
Descriptors (primary) toxic substances; loss of smell; organic solvents; respirable dust
Descriptors (secondary) France; pre-employment medical examinations; arsenic; lead; sugar; tobacco; wood; flour; diagnosis; thesis; expertise; medical supervision; cadmium; chromium; mercury
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Diseases of other sense organs (other than the eye and the ears)