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by Glenn J. Lawlor, Jr, and Thomas J. Fischer, 504 pp, with illus, Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1981.

WILLIAM P. KING, MD, Reviewer
Houston

Arch Otolaryngol. 1983;109(12):838.

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This manual well serves the otolaryngologist in all its overviews of immunology and in its coverage of related pharmacology. The appendix provides numerous useful tables, including handy regional allergen and elimination diet guides. The discussion of otolaryngologic allergy afflictions is basic, ie, designed for the nonotolaryngologist, but the coverage of asthma, its physiology, and other aspects is of greater value. As for the presented test-treatment instructions, the reader is exposed only to a review of old traditional methods, without mention of the newer titration test-treatment techniques. The radioallergosorbent test (RAST) is noted, but discussion is limited to a mid-1970 state of the art and is misleading. The modified RAST, now the norm, is unmentioned. The discussion on food allergy is limited to the narrowest of traditional views, demoting food hypersensitivity to a backseat without consideration of alternate viewpoints. If the weakness of these test-treatment and food allergy portions is recognized, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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