Predominance of IgG4+ plasma cells and CD68 positivity in sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation (SANT)

Histopathology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 495-498

  Nagai, Y ^a   Hayama, N ^b   Kishimoto, T ^a   Furuya, M ^a   Takahashi, Y ^a   Otsuka, M ^a   Miyazaki, M ^a   Nakatani, Y ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LETTER; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING ANGIOMATOID NODULAR TRANSFORMATION; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLEEN TUMOR; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA CELLS; SPLEEN; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 52649087226     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2008.03118.x     Document Type: Letter

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