A 57-year-old woman is involved in a motor vehicle accident in which she strikes the windshield and is briefly unconscious. She makes a full recovery, except that 3 months later she notices that she cannot taste the food she is eating. This is most likely due to which of the following?

a. Medullary infarction

b. Temporal lobe contusion

c. Sphenoid sinus hemorrhage

d. Phenytoin use to prevent seizures

e. Avulsion of olfactory rootlets

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