Otorhinolaryngologic Manifestation of Covid-19 | Chapter 8 | Clinical Manifestations of Covid-19: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

 

Background: The Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) is an ongoing viral disease that emerged from East Asia and rapidly spread to the rest of the world including the less developed African countries. The most common presentations of COVID-19 include dry cough in about 67.8% of cases, fever (43.8%), sore throat (13.9%), smell disturbances and taste abnormalities. Other symptoms include rhinorrhoea, sneezing, dyspnoea, tonsil oedema, enlargement of cervical lymph nodes and occasionally dizziness. Guan et al. documented that tonsil oedema was seen among 2.1% of the Chinese patients studied while cervical lymphadenopathy was seen in 0.2% of the same population. Labyrinthine presentation in the form of dizziness was recorded in 16% of the 51 subjects with COVID-19.

 

Author(s) Details:

 

Abdullahi Musa Kirfi
Department of Otorhinolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University/ Head and Neck Surgery Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, Nigeria.

 

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