IgG4-related disease should be considered in cases of hypocomplementemic immune-complex tubulointerstitial nephritis

NDT Plus

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 326-

  Sprangers, Ben ^a   Claes, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ALLERGY; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CELL INFILTRATION; HUMAN; HYDROURETER; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LETTER; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MIKULICZ DISEASE; PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME;

EID: 77955933373     PISSN: 17530784     EISSN: 17530792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndtplus/sfq019     Document Type: Letter

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