Leucocytoclastic and renal vasculitis in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis: New associations

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 376-380

  Garg, M ^a   MacKay, S ^b   Hill, P A ^c   Katsoulis, J ^a   McLaughlin, S ^d   Desmond, P V ^a   Chen, R Y M ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b University Department of Surgery   (Australia)

^c Departments of Anatomical Pathology   (Australia)

^d WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Leucocytoclastic vasculitis; Pancreatic mass; Renal vasculitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; COMMON BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY VASCULITIS; LEUCOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VASCULITIS;

AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; PANCREATITIS; VASCULITIS, LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC, CUTANEOUS;

EID: 77952737121     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2010.02175.x     Document Type: Article

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