Swiss medical weekly
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We describe 3 patients with a severe allergic immediate-type reaction to poppy-seeds, diagnosed from clinical findings, skin tests and specific IgE antibodies (CAP). All show a serologic positivity to sesame seed, possibly due to a cross reactivity to similar allergens. From 1978 until 1987 402 food allergy patients seen at the Allergy Unit, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, included no case of allergy to poppy-seeds. Because of today's trend to vegetarian food such immediate type reactions can be expected to occur more frequently.
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In the treatment of bronchogenic carcinoma approaches vary depending upon whether the carcinoma in question is defined as a small cell or a non-small cell lung cancer. Small-cell lung cancer in the majority of cases must be seen as a systemic disease even with an early diagnosis. Because of this, chemotherapy is the dominant form of treatment. ⋯ Recent clinical trials indicate, however, that better results can be obtained when chemotherapy is applied in stage III. These encouraging results stem from a number of clinical studies, in which polychemotherapy containing cisplatin (with or without radiotherapy) was applied preoperatively to initially inoperable stage III non-small cell lung cancer patients. It must be noted, however, that up until now these positive results have been achieved mainly in uncontrolled clinical investigations which must be confirmed by larger controlled trials.
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Swiss medical weekly · Jul 1995
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