Inflammatory pseudotumors in multiple organs associated with elevated serum IgG4 level: Recovery by only a small replacement dose of steroid

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1139-1142

  Tsuboi, Hiroto ^a   Inokuma, Shigeko ^a   Setoguchi, Keigo ^a   Shuji, Sumitomo ^a   Hagino, Noboru ^a   Tanaka, Yoshiaki ^a   Yoshida, Nozomi ^a   Hishima, Tsunekazu ^a   Kamisawa, Terumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypocorticoidism; IgG4; Pseudotumor; Steroid replacement

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; VASOPRESSIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEVER; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; JOINT STIFFNESS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG PSEUDOTUMOR; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA CELL; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; VASCULITIS; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; PLASMA CELLS;

EID: 48049120421     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0887     Document Type: Article

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