IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis with and without hepatic inflammatory pseudotumor, and sclerosing pancreatitis-associated sclerosing cholangitis: Do they belong to a spectrum of sclerosing pancreatitis?

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1193-1203

  Zen, Yoh ^a,b   Harada, Kenichi ^a   Sasaki, Motoko ^a   Sato, Yasunori ^a   Tsuneyama, Koichi ^c   Haratake, Joji ^d   Kurumaya, Hiroshi ^e   Katayanagi, Kazuyoshi ^e   Masuda, Shinji ^f   Niwa, Hideki ^f   Morimoto, Hideo ^g   Miwa, Atsuo ^h   Uchiyama, Akio ^h   Portmann, Bernard C ⁱ   Nakanuma, Yasuni ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b FUKUI KEN SAISEIKAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^d Kurobe City Hospital   (Japan)

^e ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f KOUSEIREN TAKAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^h TOYAMA PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

ⁱ KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IgG4; Inflammatory pseudotumor; Primary sclerosing cholangitis; Sclerosing pancreatitis; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BILIARY TRACT TUMOR; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEPATIC INFLAMMATORY PSEUDOTUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PHLEBITIS; PLASMA CELL; PSEUDOTUMOR; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; STEROID THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; PLASMA CELLS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 4344702730     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000136449.37936.6c     Document Type: Article

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