IgG4-related Autoimmune Prostatitis: Two Cases with or without Autoimmune Pancreatitis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 1983-1990

  Nishimori, Isao ^a   Kohsaki, Takuhiro ^a   Onishi, Saburo ^a   Shuin, Taro ^a   Kohsaki, Shino ^a   Ogawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Matsumoto, Manabu ^a   Hiroi, Makoto ^a   Hamano, Hideaki ^b   Kawa, Shigeyuki ^c  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; IgG4 related sclerosing disease; Positron emission tomography with 18F fluorodeoxyglucose; Prostatitis; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE; PROSTATITIS;

AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE; PROSTATITIS;

EID: 38749092992     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0452     Document Type: Article

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