Immunohistochemistry of IgG4 can help subclassify Hashimoto's autoimmune thyroiditis

Pathology International

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 636-641

  Li, Yaqiong ^a   Bai, Yanhua ^a   Liu, Zhiyan ^a   Ozaki, Takashi ^a   Taniguchi, Emiko ^a   Mori, Ichiro ^a   Nagayama, Koji ^b   Nakamura, Hirotoshi ^b   Kakudo, Kennichi ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; IgG4; Plasma cell; Sclerosis; Thyroid; Thyroiditis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH FOLLICLE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOCYTIC THYROIDITIS; MALE; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBACUTE THYROIDITIS; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA CELLS; SCLEROSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949085045     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2009.02419.x     Document Type: Article

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