IgG4-positive plasma cells in inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm: The possibility of an aortic manifestation of IgG4-related sclerosing disease

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 553-559

  Sakata, Noriyuki ^a   Tashiro, Tadashi ^a   Uesugi, Noriko ^b   Kawara, Takemi ^b   Furuya, Kiyomi ^b   Hirata, Yoko ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Kojima, Masaru ^c  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c GUNMA CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; IgG4 positive plasma cell; Immunohistochemistry; Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH FOLLICLE; MALE; PLASMA CELL; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; VASCULITIS;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DENDRITIC CELLS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; JAPAN; LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA CELLS; SCLEROSIS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 41449113881     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31815a04db     Document Type: Article

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