Inflammatory lesions of the lung, submandibular gland, bile duct and prostate in a patient with IgG4-associated multifocal systemic fibrosclerosis

Respirology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 455-457

  Hamed, Ghullam ^a   Tsushima, Kenji ^a   Yasuo, Masanori ^a   Kubo, Keishi ^a   Yamazaki, Seiichi ^a   Kawa, Shigeyuki ^a   Hamano, Hideaki ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Komoro General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

IgG4 positive plasma cell; Lung; Multifocal systemic fibrosclerosis; Prostate; Solid nodule; Submandibular gland

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G 4; PREDNISOLONE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MULTIFOCAL SYSTEMIC FIBROSCLEROSIS; ORBIT TUMOR; PLASMA CELL; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PSEUDOTUMOR; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SALIVARY GLAND; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THYROIDITIS; BIOPSY; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE;

AGED; BILE DUCTS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PLASMA CELLS; PROSTATE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

EID: 34547466198     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2007.01053.x     Document Type: Article

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