High ratio of IgG4-positive plasma cell infiltration in cutaneous plasmacytosis-is this a cutaneous manifestation of IgG4-related disease?

Human Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1269-1277

  Miyagawa Hayashino, Aya ^a   Matsumura, Yumi ^b   Kawakami, Fumi ^a   Asada, Hideo ^c   Tanioka, Miki ^b   Yoshizawa, Akihiko ^a   Mikami, Yoshiki ^a   Kotani, Hirokazu ^a   Nakashima, Yasuaki ^a   Miyachi, Yoshiki ^b   Manabe, Toshiaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

IL 6, Pemphigus; Interstitial lung disease; Systemic plasmacytosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MORPHEA; PATHOGENESIS; PEMPHIGUS; PLASMACYTOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; JAPAN; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OINTMENT BASES; PEMPHIGUS; PLASMA CELLS; PREDNISOLONE; SCLEROSIS; SKIN; TACROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68349131146     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2009.01.013     Document Type: Article

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