High serum IgG4 concentrations in patients with sclerosing pancreatitis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 344, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 732-738

  Hamano, Hideaki ^a   Kawa, Shigeyuki ^a   Horiuchi, Akira ^a   Unno, Hiroshi ^a   Furuya, Naoyuki ^a   Akamatsu, Taiji ^a   Fukushima, Mana ^a   Nikaido, Toshio ^a   Nakayama, Kohzo ^a   Usuda, Nobuteru ^b   Kiyosawa, Kendo ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SCLEROSIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; REFERENCE VALUES; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME;

EID: 0035826083     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200103083441005     Document Type: Article

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