Taste disorders after tonsillectomy

• Verfasst von: Heiser, Clemens [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Hörmann, Karl [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Stuck, Boris [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Taste disorders after tonsillectomy
• Titelzusatz: a long-term follow-up
• Verf.angabe: Clemens Heiser, MD; Basile N. Landis, MD; Roland Giger, MD; Helene Cao Van, MD; Nils Guinand, MD; Karl Hörmann, MD; Boris A. Stuck, MD
• E-Jahr: 2012
• Jahr: 27 March 2012
• Umfang: 3 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 23.04.2018
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: The laryngoscope
• Ort Quelle: Malden, MA : Wiley, 1896
• Jahr Quelle: 2012
• Band/Heft Quelle: 122(2012), 6, Seite 1265-1266
• ISSN Quelle: 1531-4995
• DOI: doi:10.1002/lary.23270
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: dysgeusia
• Sach-SW: gustation
• Sach-SW: Level of Evidence: 3b
• Sach-SW: Taste
• Sach-SW: tonsillectomy
• K10plus-PPN: 1572262931

Abstract

In a former study, taste disturbances after tonsillectomy seemed to be more frequent than expected. Eight percent of patients reported subjective taste disorders 6 months after tonsillectomy. Fifteen patients from the initial trial, who reported taste disorders after tonsillectomy, were contacted again for this long-term follow-up. A telephone interview using the same questionnaire addressing the current self-estimate of taste function was performed. At 32 ± 10 months following surgery, two (0.9%) patients still reported suffering from taste disturbance. This long-term follow-up study shows that dysgeusia following tonsillectomy occurs in approximately 1% of patients. These data should be considered when patients are informed about complications after tonsillectomy.