Kaplan S I, Kalinina A V, Agapova E V
Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 1981;81(5):679-82.
An analysis of the disease clinical picture in 205 patients has shown that there are neurological diseases imitating allergy. These are: hypothalamo-diencephalic syndrome, asthenic neurosis, sympathetic truncitis, epilepsy, and cerebrovascular insufficiency in the vertebrobasilar basin. It is primarily the clinical symptoms which are criteria for differential diagnosis. In diagnosing the bronchospastic syndrome use can be also made of changes in catecholamine metabolism and the lymphocyte blast transformation test.