ANOSMIA

nasal or sinus disease (commonest cause)

frontal lobe tumour (overlying olfactory tract)

Kallman's syndrome [gonadotrophin deficiency + anosmia]

tabes dorsalis

cerebral anoxia

damage to 1st order fibres:

infective damage

trauma to cribriform plate

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