IgG4-related disease - The diagnostic confusion and how to avoid it

Japanese Journal of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 478-483

  Masaki, Yasufumi ^a   Umehara, Hisanori ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Castleman's disease; Ku ttner's tumor; Mikulicz's disease; Sjo gren's syndrome

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOMA; MIKULICZ DISEASE; NEOPLASM; PLASMA CELL; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GIANT LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHOMA; MIKULICZ' DISEASE; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; SCLEROSIS; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 77953677344     PISSN: 09114300     EISSN: 13497413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2177/jsci.32.478     Document Type: Review

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