caa a22 4500 445297980 CHVBK 20180317142547.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20101001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12070-010-0060-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12070-010-0060-2 Qualitative and Quantitative Representation of Taste Disturbances: How We Do It by Pentagon Chart [Elektronische Daten] [Chetana Naik, C.-F. Claussen] Taste is a chemical sense responding to chemical stimuli. In our daily practice as ENT practitioners or Neurologists we do come across patients complaining of taste disturbances. Tests for taste have to be performed regularly in the clinical centres as well as in neurological labs as a part of complete work up for neurotology cases. Assessment of taste sensation can be easily done in a neurological clinic by chemogustometry as described by Claussen. The stimuli used are chemicals, representative substances for the four qualities of sweet, salty, sour and bitter, in graded solutions. These semi-quantitative results are plotted on a pentagon scheme devised by Claussen. The points of the best results for glucose, sodium chloride, citric acid, phenylthio-urea and quinine then are connected with a coloured line. That gives a linked graphic structure, which can be read by the physician at one glance. Different patterns are obtained for normal taste, taste-blindness for phenylthio-urea, ageusia, partial ageusias for glucose, or sodium chloride or citric acid or quinine or their combinations and parageusias. In this article we present different patterns of taste disturbances depicted on the pentagon chart highlighting the easy interpretation of chemogustometry. Association of Otolaryngologists of India, 2011 Chemogustometry nationallicence Taste nationallicence Pentagon chart nationallicence Ageusia nationallicence Parageusia nationallicence Naik Chetana Department of ENT, S. K. Navale Medical College, 411041, Narhe, Pune, India aut Claussen C.-F Extraordinarius für Neurootologie, Neurootologisches Forschungsinstitut der 4-G-Forschung E.V, Kurhausstrasse 12, 97688, Bad Kissingen, Germany aut Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery Springer-Verlag 62/4(2010-10-01), 376-380 0019-5421 62:4<376 2010 62 12070 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-010-0060-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-010-0060-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Naik Chetana Department of ENT, S. K. Navale Medical College, 411041, Narhe, Pune, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Claussen C.-F Extraordinarius für Neurootologie, Neurootologisches Forschungsinstitut der 4-G-Forschung E.V, Kurhausstrasse 12, 97688, Bad Kissingen, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery Springer-Verlag 62/4(2010-10-01), 376-380 0019-5421 62:4<376 2010 62 12070 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer