title: Olfactory and taste dysfunction after bilateral middle cerebral artery stroke.
abstract: Acquired dysfunction of the sense of smell and taste is usually associated with orbitofrontal tumors or trauma and is rarely reported to have occurred after ischemic stroke. We report on a patient who noted impairment of the sense of smell and taste after a localized insular frontoparietal stroke and who also had a similar, mirror-image infarction in the other hemisphere. Injury to an area of the cortex responsible for the integration of taste and smell may have accounted for this patient's symptoms.
authors: Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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