Year: 1993 Vol. 59 Ed. 4 - (8º)
Artigos Originais
Pages: 272 to 275
Cytology of the nose in the diagnosis of allergic rhinitis.
Author(s):
Denise Utsch Gonçalves *
Beatriz Fagundes Pedrosa *
Luciana de Gouvêa Viana **
Roberto Eustáquio Guimarães ***
Helena Maria Gonçalves Becker ***
Celso Gonçalves Becker ****
Keywords: cytology, perennial allergic rhinitis
Abstract:
Allergic Rhinites frequently causes sneezing, rhinorhea, itching and nasal blockage. In spite of this, the diagnoses has not to be based only in the clintçal symptoms, because any rhinitis can resemble nasal allergy.
Ninety one patients were evaluated prospectively with the purpure of analysing the use of nasal cytology as diagnostic method, comparing it with skin test, the "Gold standart" of this work
The results indicated that based on nasal eosinophils it was posible to diagnose correctly about 70% of the cases.
The authors conclude that citology of the nose is usefull in allergy diagnosis considering patients with clinic suggesting allergic rhinitis. However it isn't trusty to exclude the disease, because of the low preditive negative value (53%).
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