Are there any other organs in which autoimmune pancreatitis-associated lesions remain to be identified?

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 883-884

  Hamano, Hideaki ^a   Kawa, Shigeyuki ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; IgG4; Prostatitis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; PANCREATITIS; PLASMA CELL; POLLAKISURIA; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATITIS; PSEUDOTUMOR; RELAPSE; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; PANCREATITIS;

EID: 33748312021     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.0162     Document Type: Editorial

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