IgG4-associated multifocal systemic fibrosis complicating sclerosing sialadenitis, hypophysitis, and retroperitoneal fibrosis, but lacking pancreatic involvement

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 1243-1247

  Tanabe, Tsuyoshi ^a   Tsushima, Kenji ^a   Yasuo, Masanori ^a   Urushihata, Kazuhisa ^a   Hanaoka, Masayuki ^a   Koizumi, Tomonobu ^a   Fujimoto, Keisaku ^a   Kubo, Keishi ^a   Uehara, Takeshi ^a   Shigematsu, Satoshi ^a   Hamano, Hideaki ^a   Kawa, Shigeyuki ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; FDG PET; IgG4 associated multifocal systemic fibrosis; IgG4 related autoimmune dissease; Multifocal fibrosclerosis; Panhypopituitarism

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; THYROXINE;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFLAMMATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALAISE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PANCREAS; PLASMA CELL; POLYDIPSIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SIALOADENITIS; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SWELLING; THIRST; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; PANCREAS; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SIALADENITIS;

EID: 33845220790     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1759     Document Type: Article

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