[Diagnostic errors in gastrointestinal symptoms].
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K F Pheiffer
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[A non-specific vulvo-vagino-gingival syndrome].
The case of a 29 year-old patient is reported who initially complained about gingivitis and one year later developed a colpitis. After two years the patient was admitted to our hospital where inflammatory erosive changes of the gingiva, the vagina and the vulva were seen. Neither laboratory parameters nor histological results allowed an exact diagnosis of these findings. Also a Lichen ruber erosive had been excluded by the microscopic findings of a gingival and vaginal biopsy. Thus, the diagnosis of a non-specific vulvo-vagino-gingival syndrome was established, whereby antiphlogistic treatment with corticosteroids led to an improvement of the patient's symptoms.
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[Effect of therapy with cytostatic drugs on the hemostasis system in patients with small cell and non-small cell bronchial cancers, malignant lymphomas and plasmacytomas].
Hemostatic analyses were carried out on 43 patients with small and non-small cell lung cancer, malignant lymphomas and plasmacytomas prior to, 4 h and 24 h after application of chemotherapy. The fibrinopeptide A (FPA) level and the FPA in vitro generation rate (delta FPA) increased significantly only in the small cell lung cancer and malignant lymphomas after 4 h. This supports the thesis of the clotting activation after cytostatic-induced exposition of the tumour cell thromboplastins. An increase in the FPA was observed in those tumor patients, where a high therapy-induced cell destruction was expected. An increase in the activity of factor VIII, as was seen in acute phase reactions, also led to hypercoagulability. Fibrinogen and plasminogen decreased significantly after chemotherapy. Evidence of relevant contact activation was not found in the missing deviation of the C1 inhibitor. The increase in protein C may possibly be attributed to the high-dose corticoid therapy.
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