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Bartels Walker1, Siddharth A Patel2,3, Caitlin Jackson2
1University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine Little Rock USA.
Abstract:
Olfactory dysfunction presents in combination with various different symptoms and can be attributed to a range of etiologies, including sinonasal disease, post-viral infection, post-traumatic injury, age-related decline, and less commonly intracranial structural abnormalities and genetic conditions. Here we report a rare case of noncommunicating hydrocephalus identified following evaluation of an adolescent female presenting with longstanding hyposmia. Etiology was identified on MRI, and surgical correction with a third ventriculostomy led to improvement in olfaction.
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