[Pathology of taste: knowledge and prospectives]

Taste anomalies have not been systematically investigated till recently in Italy. The influence of the taste on the choice of the foods, on the nutrition and on the same psycho-physic human mindedness has largely been demonstrated. In this study, taste anomalies associated with various pathologic conditions (nervous, endocrine, metabolic, infectious, immunological, carential or neoplastic disorders) are reported, as well as those produced by drugs, or surgical interventions. The type and the degree of taste anomalies associated to immunological diseases, allogeneic bone marrow transplantation and AL amyloidosis are particularly described.