IgG4-associated inflammatory pseudotumor of ureter: Clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 3 cases

Human Pathology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1178-1184

  Kim, Sun A ^a   Lee, Sang Ryung ^a   Huh, Jooryung ^a   Shen, Steven S ^b   Ro, Jae Y ^a,b  

^a Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

IgG4; Inflammatory pseudotumor; Plasma cells; Ureter

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; CD68 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FLANK PAIN; HEMATURIA; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 INFLAMMATORY PSEUDOTUMOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS RATE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PHLEBITIS; PLASMA CELL; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPINDLE CELL; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER SURGERY; URETER TUMOR; URINE CYTOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA CELLS; URETERAL DISEASES; URETERAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79960415781     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: 15328392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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