Successful treatment of sclerosing mediastinitis with a high serum IgG4 level

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 431-433

  Inoue, Masaaki ^a   Nose, Naohiro ^a   Nishikawa, Hitoshi ^a   Takahashi, Masaaki ^a   Zen, Yoh ^b   Kawaguchi, Makoto ^a  

^a Niigata Rosai Hospital   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

IgG4; Sclerosing mediastinitis; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY TEST; MEDIASTINITIS; REMISSION; SCLEROSING MEDIASTINITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC CAVITY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA CELLS; PREDNISOLONE; SCLEROSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35248873885     PISSN: 18636705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-007-0154-2     Document Type: Article

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