Lymphoplasmacytic infiltration of multiple organs with immunoreactivity for IgG4: IgG4-related systemic disease

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 163-167

  Saeki, Takako ^a   Saito, Akihiko ^b   Hiura, Tohru ^b   Yamazaki, Hajime ^a   Emura, Iwao ^a   Ueno, Mitsuhiro ^b   Miyamura, Syoji ^a   Gejyo, Fumitake ^b  

^a NAGAOKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; IgG4; Mikulicz's disease; Sj gren's syndrome; Tubulointerstitial nephritis

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CAMOSTAT MESILATE; GALLIUM CITRATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; JAPAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; MIKULICZ DISEASE; PANCREAS; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREATITIS; PLASMA CELL; PSEUDOLYMPHOMA; SALIVARY GLAND; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KIDNEY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PLASMA CELLS; SALIVARY GLANDS;

EID: 33644797109     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1431     Document Type: Article

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