CYTOLOGIC EXAMINATION OF NASAL SMEARS OF SENSITIZED AND NONSENSITIZED PERSONS WITH NASAL SYMPTOMS
- 1 January 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 57 (1) , 85-93
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1936.00170050093007
Abstract
The local accumulation of eosinophil cells in the tissues and sputum of persons afflicted with bronchial asthma was one of the observations of long ago. At first only the fact of its occurrence was known; now it seems to be well established that it is one of the phenomena of the sensitized or allergic state. The occurrence of increased numbers of eosinophil cells in the sputum of persons with tuberculosis,1 bronchitis2 or bronchietasis,3 in gonorrheal discharge,4 in the muscle of persons with trichinosis, in blisters produced by cantharides,5 in the tissues of the intestinal tract and in the blood of persons with certain parasitic infestations, in carcinomatous tissue6 and in the tissue of the pituitary gland in persons with certain disturbances of that gland is too well known to justify detailed comment. Various interpretations of this increase in the number of eosinophil cells have been given.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: